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Paleolithic Period
Mesolithic Period
Neolithic Period
Stonehenge
Bronze Age
Stonehenge in Decline
Vespasian's Camp
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Iron Age
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First possible signs of Christianity
410 Roman Withdrawal from Brittania
540 Death of Melor
460 British burial in the convent
after massacre near Stonehenge
461 Meeting of Vortigern with Hengis
near the abbey of Amsbri
979 First recorded settlement
888 King Alfred left Amesbury to his son
910 Relics of Melor brought to Amesbury
955 Amesbury left to mother of King Eadred
995 King Ethelred at Amesbury
932 Athelstan dated Charter
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1113 Maud daughter of Wm the Conqueror mentioned
1177 Abbey dissolved by Henry II, refounded as
1086 Abbey held manors in local area
Amesbury in death roll
1459 Fire at the Abbey
1540 Abbey closed in the Dissolution
Military arrive on Salisbury Plain
1824 Sale of the estate to Sir Edmund Antrobus
Amesbury Estate inherited by the Duke of Queensberry
Visits by King Henry III
1275 First visit by King Edward I
a house of the Order of Fontevrault
1285 Mary daughter of Edward I, followed by
Eleanor of Provence
Lands pass to Sir Edward Seymour
1186 Nuns installed in restored abbey
1676 Marriage of Thomas Bruce and Elizabeth Seymour
Amesbury passes into the Bruce family
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