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Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

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Avebury Outer Circle Stone 14, Avebury Outer Stone Circle Extant Stones, Avebury Stone Circles, Avebury Henge and Stones, Selkley Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

1938-39. Alexander Keiller's Slides. Genearl view showing archaeologists excavating the partially buried Stone 14 [Map].

1938-39. Alexander Keiller's Slides. General view of Stone 14 [Map] showing the inner face.

1938-39. Alexander Keiller's Slides. General view of showing four men working to re-erect Stone 14 [Map].

Avebury Outer Circle Stone 14 [Map]. Before, during and after re-erection in 1938.

Antiquity 1939 Volume 13 Pages 223-233. The standing Stone no. 14 [Map] was excavated to its base, and was proved to have slipped accidentally during erection, much in the same way as had Stone no. 14 of the northwest sector, which accounted for its present position being oblique to the arc of the circle. In this case certain of the anti-friction stakes had been broken by the accident, remains of carbonized wood being found for the first time in the stake-holes.