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	Alexander Keiller Museum: papers of archaeologists, antiquaries and historians
		The papers held by the Alexander Keiller Museum belong to the nation and are in the custody of the National Trust.
		In the 1930's Keiller brought the Avenue, Avebury Circle, the manor and the farm.
		Following Keiller's death in 1955, Isobel Smith continued the excavation of Windmill Hill using various 'new' methods such as radiocarbon dating, and Silbury Hill was excavated by Richard Atkinson from 1968-69 with the support of the BBC.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/lists/GB-1659-MS.Collections.htm (1079 words)

	marmalade man
		The appearance of Avebury to-day is largely due to the efforts of Alexander Keiller who purchased the monument in the 1930s his wealth coming from the family marmalade business.
		Failing health was to prevent Keiller from continuing with his work at Avebury which leaves the eastern side of the monument yet to be thoroughly investigated.
		Whether any of these buried megaliths will ever be given the attention that Keiller lavished on those of the west side and be returned to their rightful positions remains a question that only the future will be able to answer.
	www.avebury-web.co.uk /marmalade_man.html (943 words)

	Bodies of Evidence
		In 1938, archaeologist Alexander Keiller discovered a male skeleton buried beneath a 13-ton megalith at Avebury in Wiltshire.
		Keiller believed he had been killed by a falling stone during a period when many megaliths were buried because the Catholic church felt they were a pagan threat.
		A re-examination of the skeleton showed that the body had not been crushed by a falling stone, but might have been buried next to it after death or been trapped by it and died of suffocation.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/B/bodies/cases/tcase07.html (157 words)

	Wiltshire County Council \| Alexander Keiller Museum
		The museum has on display the grave of a rare Neolithic child skeleton with unusual malformation of the skull.
		The skeleton was discovered at Windmill Hill during the 1925-29 excavations by Alexander Keiller.
		Although the display was originally above floor level in a glass case, it was moved to a case below floor level sometime after the refurbishment of the museum during the 1960’s.
	www.wiltshire.gov.uk /leisure-and-culture/heritage-home/heritage-conservation/heritage-conservation-case-studies/alexander-keiller-museum.htm (278 words)

	The Big Show
		Indeed, when Alexander Keiller excavated the Avebury monument in the 1930s, he could barely lean on his spade without turning up some evidence of building.
		Keiller is the man to whom we owe most for our knowledge of Avebury's monuments.
		In recent years, some have suggested that this entire landscape had some ritual/ceremonial significance to the people of that time, and have found (or interpreted) evidence that the major monuments of this region were all part of one enormous plan.
	www.strum.co.uk /wessex/ave7.htm (526 words)

	British Archaeology magazine, October 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Although this threat was removed by the Government for non-archaeological reasons, this campaign led to the involvement of Alexander Keiller, a rich, still relatively young man (in his thirties in the 1920s) who had pursued an interest in archaeology up to then largely in Scotland.
		Alexander Keiller's excavations at Windmill Hill lasted five seasons between 1925 and 1929, and incorporated 16 complete segments of the inner of the site's three circuits of ditches, 11 of the middle and three of the outer.
		Rosamund Cleal is Curator of the Alexander Keiller Museum in Avebury.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /BA/ba67/feat3.shtml (1900 words)

	Avebury photographs, maps, books & memories
		Alexander Keiller, heir to the Dundee marmalade fortune, gradually purchased the site of Avebury and the..." read more
		The village of Avebury, population 650, is best known for its impressive prehistoric stone circles, which were recently claimed to be the work of marmalade millionaire Keiller, rather than prehistoric man. Avebury is undoubtedly an ancient monument.
		Keiller and Pigott excavated the site in the 1930s and indicated individual stones that were missing by inserting little concrete pillars in their place.
	www.francisfrith.com /search/England/Wiltshire/Avebury/Avebury.htm (360 words)

	Alexander Keiller Museum: papers of archaeologists, antiquaries and historians
		The papers held by the Alexander Keiller Museum belong to the nation and are in the custody of the National Trust.
		In the 1930's Keiller brought the Avenue, Avebury Circle, the manor and the farm.
		This report was compiled following a visit to Alexander Keiller Museum by Dr Chris Alderman and Dr Andrew Lewis in connection with a survey of the papers of antiquaries, archaeologists and historians being undertaken by the Commission.
	www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/lists/GB-1659-MS.Collections.htm (1079 words)

	Rock of ages turned on its head by angry rival - Archaeo Forums
		Alexander Keiller, who spent much of his fortune restoring the 4,500-year-old stone circle and
		Mr Pitts said: In 1935 when Alexander Keiller was restoring the stones in West Kennet Avenue he
		Ros Cleal, curator of the Alexander Keiller Museum at Avebury, said that the jury was still out as
	www.stonepages.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=460 (623 words)

	Alexander Keiller Encyklopedi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Alexander Keiller, född 1804, död 1874, var en brittisk-svensk industri- och affärsman.
		Keiller föddes i Dundee i Skottland och kom 1825 till Göteborg med anledning av familjens trävaruaffärer i Sverige.
		1839 lades denna fabrik ner, istället anlade Keiller 1841 för egen räkning en mekanisk verkstad i Göteborg.
	www.encyklopedi.net /topic/Alexander_Keiller.html (296 words)

	Surrealism And After Books Non Fiction Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gabrielle Keiller`s bequest to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art of more than 170 works of art and a library of manuscripts, rare books and periodicals, is the most important addition to the collection since its foundation in 1960.
		Gabrielle Keiller was born Gabrielle Muriel Ritchie in 1908 at North Berwick, where her parents were on a golfing holiday.
		In 1951 she married Alexander Keiller, who was a distinguished archaeologist and a member of the Dundee marmalade family - the year in which she also reached the final of the English Ladies Golf Championship.
	www.1-online-stores.com /books_non_fiction/Surrealism_And_After (269 words)

	Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
		The museum's founder, Alexander Keiller, excavated parts of the henge monument and associated avenue of standing stones in the 1930s and re-erected many fallen and buried stones.
		The collection is primarily archaeological and mainly of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age date, with a smaller component of Anglo-Saxon and later material.
		A rare early 20th century motor car is also displayed: a Sizaire Berwick which belonged to Alexander Keiller and the collection includes much Keiller correspondence.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/SW000067.html (242 words)

	History Today: The educational archive of articles, news and study aids for teachers, students and enthusiasts - Not So ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Guidebooks sometimes mention, however, although almost only in passing, that the stones were ‘partly restored’ by Alexander Keiller in the 1930s.
		Broadcast news footage featured the amateur archaeologist and marmalade millionaire Alexander Keiller, who, having bought large tracts of Avebury, was busily unearthing and erecting in concrete numerous stones that had been buried hundreds of years previously by jealous Christians and obstructed farmers.
		Keiller also replaced stones that had been removed – broken up for use in buildings and roads – by concrete markers where a receptor pit was evident but no stone was found.
	www.historytoday.com /dm_getArticle.asp?gid=14004 (324 words)

	Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury
		Avebury Manor and Garden / Alexander Keiller Museum
		The Alexander Keiller Museum is a collection of models, displays and archaeological finds shedding light on what is one of the largest megalithic monuments in Europe.
		This museum contains one of the most important prehistoric archaeological collections in Britain - the results of research on the Avebury Stone Circles conducted by Alexander Keiller in the 1930s.
	www.planetware.com /avebury/alexander-keiller-museum-eng-wlt-avkeilr.htm (151 words)

	Avebury Museum and Barn Exhibition
		Founded by Alexander Keiller in the 1930s the archaeological museum is located in a former stable block to the nearby Avebury Manor House.
		The museum houses many of the artefacts from Keiller's excavations in Avebury and other prehistoric monuments in the vicinity, including Windmill Hill.
		The interpretation panels and displays take you back through time from the wildwood of more than 6,000 years ago to the Avebury of recent times, when the millionaire Alexander Keiller took on the enormous task of excavating and re-erecting part of the great stone circle.
	www.kennet.gov.uk /avebury/aveburyvirtual/museumandbarn/index.htm (233 words)

	Wordwell Books
		As a result, the largest collection of Irish archaeological artefacts was dispersed among a variety of dealers, collectors and museums.
		One of the purchasers, Alexander Keiller, donated 15,000 objects to the National Museum of Ireland in 1938, a large proportion of which derived from Knowles’s collection.
		This book details the history of the Keiller—Knowles Collection, examines the typology and distribution of the artefacts represented, and signals the curatorial lessons to be learnt, regarding both the issue of dispersal and the peculiar problems associated with cataloguing a collection of this size.
	www.wordwellbooks.com /book.php?id=431 (155 words)

	avebury stone circle map
		The Alexander Keiller Museum, houses one of the most important prehistoric archaeological collections in Britain.
		Find out more about the resources and facilities from the Curator of the Alexander Keiller Museum.
		Alexander Keiller bought the Manor and excavated the sites thoroughly in the 1930s, adding bollards where stones were missing.
	www.kennet.gov.uk /planservices/AveburyW.nsf/touravemap (640 words)

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	Harbottle's Pub Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Most of the stuff on the walls relates to the stone circle.
		In the Keiller Room (Alexander Keiller was the man who excavated and restored much of the monument - and oversaw the destruction of large parts of the old village) there is the old village well, which is circa 1600.
		It is 86 feet deep and is believed to be the last resting place of at least one unfortunate villager.
	www.professorharbottle.co.uk /pub/wiltshire/redlion.html (201 words)

	BADA Dealer Directory - Finch & Co (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Serious rivalry existed between the English Honourable East India Company and its Swedish counterpart as a result of this lucrative business and it is interesting to note that during the 18th century twice as many Scots ordered armorial services to be made in proportion to their population in comparison to the English.
		In 1905 his descendent James Keiller obtained royal permission to recover porcelain from a wreck that had sunk in Gothenburg Harbour in 1745 carrying blue and white Chinese porcelain for the Swedish East India Company.
		The crest of James Keiller on this service is mentioned by David Howard in Volume II of his Chinese Armorial Porcelain and is 'out of a Murai corenet a lion's head' with the motto 'Fortiter et Celeriter'.
	www.bada.org /provenart/dealer_stock_details.cgi?a_id=21879&d_id=109&t_id=28008&h=0 (439 words)

	Alexander Keiller Museum, High Street, Avebury, Wiltshire - Museums / Galleries
		Alexander Keiller Museum, founded by Alexander Keiller in the 1930s, contains the prehistoric collections from the Avebury complex of monuments, which are of similar age to Stonehenge.
		One of the displays is of a Neolithic child skeleton that was discovered at Windmill Hill in the 1920s.
		Also on display is a rare 20th century car that belonged to Alexander Keiller along with a large archive of Keiller correspondence, and a collection of archaeological publications that can be viewed by appointment.
	www.britainsfinest.co.uk /museums/museums.cfm/searchazref/80001330ALEA (211 words)

	Avebury Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		The best guess is that it was built soon after 2500 BC, and presumably had a similar ritual or religious function to Stonehenge's.
		To the southeast, an avenue of standing stones leads half a mile beyond West Kennet towards a spot known as the Sanctuary, though there is little left to see here.
		This sixteenth-century house - incorporating later alterations - has four or five panelled and plastered rooms, for which you are issued with over-shoes to protect the wooden floors from the chalk dust, and a garden with topiary and medieval walls.
	www.infohub.com /destinations/Europe%2D%26%2DRussia/England/Avebury (324 words)

	Avebury Wiltshire - In Pictures
		The sarsen stones are from the surrounding downs and unlike those of Stonehenge have not been worked into formal shapes.
		Wealthy marmalade magnate and amateur archaeologist, Alexander Keiller spent a great deal of his fortune reconstructing the various circles and avenues of stone at Avebury.
		He even went so far as to buy up properties in the village and pull them down in an attempt to bring the place back to his vision of its former glory.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /chippenham/avebury/index.html (531 words)

	About Us - Neolithic Studies Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But history shows that this was not the first time that such an idea had been mooted.
		While sorting through papers at the Alexander Keiller Museum in Avebury, Dr Ros Cleal found a letter dated 10th November 1930 from Alexander Keiller to Stuart Piggott, suggesting the formation of a study group on the Neolithic period very much along the lines of what emerged in the 1980s.
		I therefore broached the suggestion to Eliot Curwen of the formation of a small club or society (without entrance fee or subscription), the qualification for membership of which would be that one had carried out and was interested in researches as regards the neolithic period in Great Britain.
	www.cole007.net /nsg/history.html (246 words)

	Museum and Manor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Named after and set up by the archæologist Alexander Keiller, who was responsible for excavating Avebury’s main circle as well as the
		His efforts in re-erecting some of the fallen stones help to give the public an impression of what Avebury must have looked like in its full pre-historic glory.
		The museum houses many of the artefacts unearthed from excavations of the monuments in the Avebury area by Alexander Keiller himself, as well as those found by other archæologists.
	freespace.virgin.net /abw.mork/mus_man.htm (190 words)

	Alexander Keiller Museum, , Avebury, SN8 1RF - www.stately-homes.com
		Alexander Keiller Museum,, Avebury, SN8 1RF - www.stately-homes.com
		The investigation of Avebury Stone Circles was largely the work of Alexander Keiller in the 1930s.
		He put together one of the most important prehistoric archaeological collections in Britain, which can be seen here.
	www.stately-homes.com /areas/details.asp?HID=1894&ID=247&path=12,23,99,247&town= (130 words)

	Ghost of a flea: "Restoration is a lie"
		The years when teams of navvies sat aboard the greatest cranes in the British Empire to hoist stones upright; drag leaning trilithons into position, replace fallen lintels which once sat atop the huge sarsens.
		As Mr Edwards - the erstwhile enfant terrible of British archaeology following revelations that nearby Avebury was a total 20s and 30s rebuild by marmalade millionaire Alexander Keiller - says: "What we have been looking at is a 20th Century landscape, which is reminiscent of what Stonehenge might have been like thousands of years ago.
		It has been created by the heritage industry and is NOT the creation of prehistoric people.
	www.ghostofaflea.com /archives/007131.html (239 words)

	Nättidningen GLIMTEN; En Fredens man, Johan Magnusson på Torpet Freden i Partille
		På så sätt kom Alexander Keiller till Sverige.
		Det gav Keiller anledning att starta sin senare så framgångsrika verksamhet i Göteborg vilket bl a ledde fram till Göteborgs Mekaniska Verkstad (senare Götaverken).
		Keiller, Alexander 1804-74 industri- och affärsman med skotskt ursprung viktig förmedlare av brittisk textil- och verkstadsteknik till Sverige.
	www.glimten.net /pe/Freden1.htm (1092 words)

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