Biography of Benjamin Howard Cunnington 1861-1950

In 1861 Benjamin Howard Cunnington was born to Henry Cunnington (age 41).

In 1889 Benjamin Howard Cunnington (age 28) and Maud Cunnington née Pegge (age 19) were married.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1907 V35 Pages 1-20. The barrow was opened by Mr. B. Howard Cunnington (age 45), F.S.A., Scot. The greater part of this paper was printed with the illustrations here given (except the arrow-head) in The Reliquary for January, 1907, vol. xiii., pp. 28-46.

The Society is indebted to Dr. Maurice, of Marlborough, in whose possession all the objects here described remain, for a donation of two guineas towards the cost of the illustrations.- Ed.J

Opening of the Manton Barrow. The Beginning.

The End.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1924 V42 Pages 431-437. 1924. The "Blue Stone" From Boles Barrow [Map]¹ By B. Howard Cunnington (age 63), F.S.A., Scot.

Note 1. The Society is indebted to Mr. Cunnington for the kind gift of the plates illustrating this paper. - Editor

In 1950 Benjamin Howard Cunnington (age 89) died.

On 28th February 1951 [his former wife] Maud Cunnington née Pegge (age 81) died.

Longstones Cove aka Devil's Quoits [Map], aka Adam and Eve, Longstone Cove, Devil's Coits, describe two large upright sarsen stones in a field to the south-west of the Avebury Henge. One of the stones fell and was re-erected in 1911. During the course of its re-erection husband and wife Benjamin and Maud Cunnington discovered a crouched skeleton with beaker ware at its foot. When re-erected the larger stone, known as Adam, was rotated by around 45 degress clockwise from its original position.

Winterbourne Stoke Long Barrow [Map]. Historic England 1015021.

The monument includes a Long Barrow orientated east - west situated on a downland spur 180m south of the A360 on Winterbourne Stoke Down. The mound is 43m long. A 36m length of the mound survives as a visible earthwork which varies in height from 1.5m high at the western end to c.1m at the eastern end. Beyond this the remainder of the mound is visible as a slight rise in the field surface. The mound is 17m wide and is flanked on either side by a ditch up to 5m wide; that on the south side is visible as a shallow depression. The north western ditch survives as a buried feature. A part excavation by Cunnington in the early 19th century produced a cremation covered with flints and two deep cists containing wood ash and charcoal. The long barrow lies within a levelled field system which has not been included in the scheduling.