Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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Avebury Henge and Stones is in Avebury, Wiltshire [Map], South England Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age.
Avebury Henge and Stones [Map] describes the monuments associated with the Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age Period, aka around 2400BC. Those monuments are:
Avebury Stone Circles, including:
Avebury North Circle, with the Avebury North Circle Cove [Map] at its centre,
Avebury South Circle, with the Avebury South Circle Obelisk [Map] at its centre,
West Kennet Avenue, with the The Sanctuary [Map] at its end,
Beckhampton Avenue, with the Longstones Cove aka Devil's Quoits [Map] at its end,
