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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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