John Frederick Smerdon Stone (20 July 1899[1] – 12 May 1957) was a British archaeologist, most famous for his work in and around Wiltshire, especially at Stonehenge and the Woodhenge area.
Stone was born in Bath, Somerset.[2] In 1947, Stone excavated the first ever trench across the Stonehenge cursus, at a site near the Fargo Plantation a little north west of the stone circle. This permitted its dating for the first time and Stone was able to establish its prehistoric date and that it had been constructed using antler picks in irregular sections. In the cursus ditch fill, he also found a piece of Welsh stone, incorrectly described as a fragment from the Cosheston Beds of Milford Haven. Coupled with the finds of bluestone fragments found between the cursus and Stonehenge, Stone hypothesised that an earlier bluestone monument, predating the megalithic stages of Stonehenge, had stood near the cursus and been subsequently moved and re-erected on its current spot.[3]
In 1950, Stone joined R. J. C. Atkinson and Stuart Piggott in an excavation at Stonehenge itself. Commissioned by the Society of Antiquaries, their work recovered many cremations and developed the phasing that still dominates much of what is written about Stonehenge.
^Chippendale, C "Stonehenge Complete" (Thames and Hudson, London, 2004)
Further readingEdit
Stone, John F.S., 1935. Some discoveries at Ratfyn, Amesbury and their bearing on the date of Woodhenge, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 47, 55-67
Stone, John F.S., 1936. An enclosure on Boscombe Down East, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 47, 466-489
Stone, John F.S., 1938. An early Bronze Age grave in Fargo Plantation near Stonehenge, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 48, 357-70
Stone, John F.S., 1947. The Stonehenge Cursus and its affinities, Archaeological Journal, 104, 7-19
Stone, John F.S., & Young, W.E.V., 1948. Two pits of grooved ware date near Woodhenge, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 52, 287-306
Stone, John F.S., 1949. Some grooved ware pottery from the Woodhenge area, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 15, 122-27
Stone, John F.S., 1958. Wessex Before the Celts, Frederick A Praeger Publishers, New York, 1958, Library of Congress Card # 58-8184
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