Amesbury

51 175 - 1.7791666666667Koordinaten: 51 ° 11 ' N, 1 ° 47 ' W

Amesbury is a town in Wiltshire, England, about 13 km north of Salisbury near Stonehenge. The town of Amesbury, was founded in the year 979 after Christ. Settled but the place was before, because there was already a monastery in his place. Today, the city is part of the unitary authority of Wiltshire.

On maps from the 17th century called " Ambersbury ", nowadays it is suspected that the place was named after Ambrosius Aurelianus, leader of Romano-British resistance against the invasion of the Saxons in the 5th century. Even with the Arthurian legend Amesbury is associated: The monastery, whither Guinevere retired, should it have been in Amesbury.

Approximately one and a half kilometers west of the town is a hill fort in the Iron Age, which is overgrown and hidden by bushes. This is in the region as Vespasian's camp known ( named after the Roman general and later emperor, said to have been active in this part of the island ). It never took place excavations of this site.

In 2002, the magnificent Copper Age burial site of the British Isles was discovered in Amesbury. The remains of two men of apparently high level had been buried along with over 100 grave goods such as arrowheads, copper daggers and gold earrings in two places there. The corpse in the grave of lush equipped two became known as the Amesbury Archer ( " Archer Amesbury ").

56632
de