At which English tourist attraction would you find the Aubrey Holes
Aubrey holes of the later cremations during Stonehenge 2 have also added to the uncertainty over the function of the holes. In a survey of twentieth-century excavations at Stonehenge, English Heritage's "Stonehenge in its landscape", archaeologist Karen Walker collated and studied the surviving records from all the earlier work on the holes and concluded that "Although the evidence is inconclusive, and will no doubt be the subject of continued debate, the authors are inclined to support the view that the Aubrey Holes held posts, which were removed, rather than burnt in situ or left to decay." In August 2008, further excavation of
Aubrey holes during the work carried out by Colonel William Hawley that Hawley's assistant Robert Newall identified a ring of pits he named in honour of Aubrey and his early survey. The depressions seen by Aubrey himself are more likely to have been different features from those that now bear his name. Mike Pitts in a 1981 article in "Nature" pointed out that the holes had been backfilled thousands of years before Aubrey visited the site. The presence of later cremation burials and sarsen stone chips in the holes' upper fills supports this. That none of the other antiquarians who visited the