Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 153-378 is in Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38.
Upton Lovell
Barrows.
On Upton Lovell Down S. of the Amesbury Rd. ¾ to 1 mile S. of Knook Castle, 4. 7. I. Station III. shows 6 barrows opened by Hoare, only 2 of which, Nos. (6) and (4) or (5), are shown on 0.S. 52 SE. The numbers in brackets thus (6) are Hoare's.
1. (6) "Great Barrow [Map]," 1 mile S.W. of Knook Castle, 3 mile S. of Amesbury Rd., bell-shaped with ditch. Shallow cist in centre with burnt bones, and necklace of beads, 16 of cylindrical notched glass, 5 of lignite, 27 of amber. Stags' horns and quantities of ashes in body of mound. O.M. 52 SE.; A.W. 1.76 ; Stourhead Cat. 14 b, d. figs.
[2e.] "Golden Barrow [Map]" in valley on N. bank of Wily River, about mile S.E. of Upton Lovell Manor Farm. Opened 1803 and 1807. In centre a heap of burnt bones in oblong cist about 1ft. 6in. deep without relics. Nearer surface of barrow a second pile of burnt bones, and 1ft. away a quantity of ashes with small fragments of burnt bone. 2ft. from the pile of burnt bones were 13 small drum-shaped beads or buttons of thin gold ; a plate of thin gold which had probably covered a wooden foundation covered with engraved ornament, 6in. X 3in.; a large conical lignite button covered with thin gold ; two small conical orna- ments of thin gold ; a necklace composed of several flat perfor- ated plates and more than 1,000 beds of amber ; a long tanged bronze awl ; a "grape cup" ; a small thin bronze knife dagger ; a small plain urn-shaped vessel inside a larger urn. 4.W. 1 98; Pls. X., XI.,Station IV. ; Stourkead Cat. 50—62 figs. ; Evans' Bronze 189 figs. 223, 224 ; Evans' Stone 414; Arch. xliii. 466 ; not in 0.3. 58 NE.