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The Museum was founded in 1938 by Alexander Keiller, who excavated in and around Avebury

in the 1920s and 1930s. The original building housing the Museum was bought by the National

Trust in 1943 and almost immediately placed in the care of the state under a Guardianship

agreement (under which the National Trust retained the ownership of the building).

The collections were given to the nation in 1966 by the widow of Alexander Keiller. Since 1994

the Museum has been managed by the National Trust under a 25 year Local Management &

Loan Agreement with English Heritage; all staff and volunteers are National Trust.

As part of the Agreement the National Trust and English Heritage set up an Advisory Board to

ensure that the Museum was managed to a satisfactory standard and to discuss strategic and

operational matters. A Report is prepared annually on behalf of the Board by the Museum’s

curatorial staff. See Appendix 1 for the composition of the Board during 2014-2015.

ALEXANDER KEILLER MUSEUM, AVEBURY ANNUAL REPORT

1 March 2014 – 28 February 2015

The report of the Advisory Board to the Local Management & Loan Agreement partners (The National Trust and English Heritage).

Alexander Keiller Museum, clockwise from top left: the Barn;

Stables (exterior from the south-east); the interior of the Barn

and the permanent exhibition; the Stables gallery (interior).

Museum curatorial staff during 2014- 15

The Museum Curator during 2014-2015 was Dr Rosamund Cleal; she was supported by

Curatorial Assistant Michele Drisse. The report also includes the contribution of

Dr Nick Snashall, NT Archaeologist (Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site) to the Museum.

Full details of staff working in or from the Museum are included in Appendix 2.

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2 Acquisitions

There have been no acquisitions added

to the catalogue during the period of the

report, but the finds from the 2014

season of the West Kennet Avenue

excavation will enter the Museum after

analysis (i.e. in a subsequent year), as

NT items (i.e. from NT land).

Romano-British pottery from the 1968-

1970 excavations of Silbury Hill, which

was located recently by English Heritage, has been accepted into the Museum and will be

entered into the National Trust Collections Management System when migration from the current

catalogue has been completed. Finds of other material from the site are already present in the

collections.

3 Documentation & collections management

The Curatorial Assistant completed preparations for migrating the museum catalogue to the NT

Collections Management System (CMS) during the year

but migration was deferred to 2015/16. Deferral is to

enable ceramics (and some other finds) which are bulk-

accessioned in the existing catalogue to be individually

accessioned before migration. This will make locating

individual pieces within the collections easier, and enable

research enquiries to be facilitated more effectively.

Locating pottery within the Windmill Hill collection, which is

a type-collection for the earlier Neolithic, has been a

particular issue in the past. Individual accessioning of the

pottery was ongoing at year-end.

Tiny barbed and tanged arrowhead from the excavations on West Kennet Avenue 2014. Photo: Mike Robinson

COLLECTIONS CARE

1 Introduction

This report covers the operation of the Alexander Keiller Museum in the reporting year 1 March

2014 to 28 February 2015. The report also includes an outline of the operation of Avebury Manor.

The Museum Curator’s role includes the line management of the Avebury Manor House Manager;

she is also Education Officer for the site under the terms of the agreement with English Heritage,

and oversees interpretation within the Manor and across the archaeological sites of the Avebury

complex which are managed by the National Trust.

The role of the Curatorial Assistant is divided between the Manor (60%) and the Museum (40%).

The activities of the NT Archaeologist for the Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site are

reported where they are directly related to the operation of the Museum (including tours and events

run from the Museum).

Neolithic pot from Windmill Hill

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4 Conservation

The Curator, Curatorial Assistant and House Manager attended one Conservation & Curatorial

meeting with regional Curator Stephen Ponder and Conservator Sarah Stanley.

Monitoring of temperature, %Relative Humidity, pests and light continued through the year in the

three buildings of the Museum (Stables, Barn, and Racquets Court Store & Study Room).

5 Security & Emergency Planning There have been no recorded security issues or emergencies during the reporting period.

6 Human Remains in the Museum Collections There are no issues to report. No research requests involving human remains in the Museum collections were received during the year.

EDUCATION, INFORMAL LEARNING & RESEARCH

The Local Management & Loan Agreement with English Heritage (1994) requires that the Curator

‘act as the Education Officer of the Museum and the other sites in Avebury in the day to day care

of the Trust.’

7 Primary, secondary & tertiary education

A breakdown of individuals visiting through primary, secondary and tertiary educational visits is

shown in Figure 1. This shows that there was an increase of 22.5% in the total number of

individuals as against 2013-2014, most of which is accounted for by an increase of 1329

individuals visiting from primary schools (KS1 - KS2), an increase of 100.5% in KS1-KS2 visiting.

1300 12951367

15591501

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2652

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2009_2010Total 4709

2010_2011Total 4918

2011_2012Total 4397

2012_2013Total 4252

2013_2014Total 3842

2014_2015Total 4706

Figure 1: Individuals in Education (all levels) visits 2008/9_2013/15

Primary

Secondary

Tertiary

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The number of individuals visiting in secondary school visits remained stable, but low: 2013-14

and 2014-15 saw almost exactly the same total number of individuals visiting (1085 and 1082),

a figure several hundred individuals lower than for the previous five years. Tertiary visits were at

a five year low, although Figure 1 illustrates that Tertiary educational visiting is the most variable

of the three sectors, probably because of differences in courses being taught from year to year

(many universities and colleges do not teach every module every year).

The change to the National Curriculum for History for KS2 in particular - with the introduction of

change from the Stone Age to Iron Age as a compulsory subject area - was expected to have an

impact on numbers of primary schools visiting and that proved to be the case. This necessitated

a review of how educational visits are handled on the site and this took much of the Curatorial

Assistant’s time during the year.

Accompanying adults

with groups

Students / pupils Revenue

Introductory talks in

the galleries

273 1842 Basic talk free with

entry (free entry to pre

-booked groups

required by agreement

with EH) (donation

£20)

Lithics handling

collection

104 625 Not charged for during

this reporting period

Stone Circle tours 206 1069 £3,230

Table 1: provision for educational groups (figures are not the same as for overall

educational visiting as some educational groups have neither tour nor introductory talk.

Table 1 shows the numbers of students and accompanying adults in formal educational

groups receiving the basic free visit and introductory talk, and charged-for tours of the henge.

Some handling sessions were also provided, by Visitors Services Assistant Matthew Claridge

and the Curatorial Assistant Michele Drisse; guided tours were largely provided by volunteer

henge guides.

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The breakdown charts (Figure 2 a-c, see) shows individuals visiting in educational groups by

four-week period and educational stage.

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During the year the Curatorial

Assistant created both a second

handling collection, to facilitate

larger groups, and a Teacher’s

Pack of information to accompany

bookings.

The Museum Curator attended three meetings of the Stonehenge & Avebury Learning &

Outreach Co-ordination Group (SALOCG).

8 Walks, talks & workshops

Walks, talks and workshops/day schools held at the Museum or led from the Museum by staff

or volunteers, and talks/walks off-site by Museum staff or volunteers.

The Museum Curator contributed to a one-day workshop on Avebury village at the Wiltshire &

Swindon History Centre, contributing a short talk on the history of Avebury Manor. She also

assisted in giving a guided walk around Avebury village as part of the day, particularly

contributing pieces on the water meadow system which lies on and adjacent to Trust property,

the remains of the shrunken medieval village, and Anglo-Saxon settlements.

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Figure 2c

2013-14 Tertiary

2014-15 Tertiary

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Right: the south-east sector, Avebury,

in winter.

Left: Water carrier of the

watermeadow system west of

Avebury village and adjacent

to the main visitor car park.

NT Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site Archaeologist Dr Nick Snashall led two ‘Winter

Warmers’ walks in the Avebury landscape, for 20 people, and gave one off-site talk, to the

Upavon Good Companions (25 people).

Dr Snashall also gave a presentation on ‘Stonehenge & Avebury: a year in the life of a World

Heritage Site’ to the annual meeting of the South West Region NT archaeologists.

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During the excavations on the West Kennet Avenue in July - August 2014 around 65 members

of the local community were led on tours during the Open Day. Members of both World Heritage

Site Steering Committees and Stonehenge & Avebury Archaeological & Historical Research

Group (about 30 members) were also given guided tours of the excavation. National Trust

volunteers from the Museum and Manor also led tours and acted as ‘meeters & greeters’ for the

public at the excavation with 270 members of the public receiving guided tours from the henge to

the excavation.

Mark Aylward-Greenway of

the Museum Visitor Services

staff, with Curatorial Assistant

Michele Drisse, showing

images of the Avenue in the

early 20th century and the

1930s from the Museum

archive, displayed for the

public at the West Kennet

Avenue excavation.

Photo: Mike Robinson

The number of individual visits for use of the collections and archive

increased (see table) but the number by email, telephone or letter decreased

markedly from the previous year.

Four major research projects in particular used the collections: two involved

with West Kennet palisaded enclosures (Cardiff University and English

Heritage), one looking at Alexander Keiller’s social circle (Kingston

University) and particularly his third wife, Doris Emerson Chapman, and one

examined Neolithic mobile objects of stone (University of Southampton)

(illustrated, right, chalk object from Windmill Hill).

2014-

2015

2013-

2014

2012-

2013

2011-2012 2010-2011

Enquiries in person to use

reserve coll. or library

21 7 20 25 16

Enq. by email, phone or letter,

or in person in gallery

(answered by Curators or

Archaeologist)

5 9 8 15 40

26 16 28 40 56

9 Enquiries and Research Visits

M.A. student Emily Banfield (University of Leicester) studied animal bones

from South Street and Horslip (Windmill Hill) long barrows and deposited her

completed M.A. thesis in the Museum.

Chalk object from

Windmill Hill

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PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF THE COLLECTIONS

11 Recent Developments

The Curatorial Assistant refreshed the Earth, Wood & Stone flipbook and medieval Avebury

flipbook in the Barn gallery, re-designing the pages.

Prior to Christmas a new temporary display was installed which featured a New Year card

designed by Alexander Keiller and featuring one of his own photographs of Avebury in snow.

10 Research Requests

A request for destructive sampling of animal bone and antler from West Kennet Palisaded

Enclosures was received from English Heritage. The Advisory Board advised that permission for

sampling was appropriate, and sampling took place towards the end of the reporting year.

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14 Promotion of the Collections Sue Davies, the presenter of the week-day afternoon show on BBC Radio Wiltshire, continued

to run a ‘Curator’s Choice’ slot on her show, in which Museums have a slot in turn, each coming

round approximately once every 6-8 weeks. The Curator presented the following objects as her

choices during the year:

Model of stone-raising, from the original display

of the Alexander Keiller Museum and still used

in the display in Stables.

Anglo-Saxon stone lamp from the top of

Silbury Hill.

13 Planning & Development

A short paper on possible development of the Museum was presented by the Curator at the

autumn meeting of the Advisory Board. This outlined the potential for redisplaying the two

galleries and implementing more visitor-friendly approaches, in particular utilising the guides who

already volunteer in the Museum..

Handle of a fork from the Windmill Hill excavation

equipment archive. The handle is marked MIAR for

Morven Institute of Archaeological Research, with a

monogrammed VK (Veronica Keiller) cut over it.t

Biconical urn from Windmill Hill.

Late Iron Age or Romano-British glass bead

from Windmill Hill.

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Fragment of ‘spotted dolerite (‘bluestone’ ) from the

top of Silbury Hill, found during excavations in 1970.

This had been identified as spotted dolerite during the

excavations and had been displayed with that

identification. The identification was queried by the

English Heritage Silbury Hill research project, but the

fragment was definitively identified as spotted dolerite

during that project. Three further spotted dolerite

flakes were found in the EH excavations and analysis

showed that all the fragments, including this piece,

could have been struck from one piece of rock.

New Year card from Alexander and Doris Keiller

Rim sherd from a late Romano-British jar

from Silbury Hill.

The Curator represented the Museum at ‘Avebury Day’, a village community event, also open to

visitors. The NT Visitor Services Manager and Curator staffed the NT stall, the VSM providing

face-painting and the Curator badge-making and the Museum handling collection. There was

continuous interest in the handling collection and was accessed by approximately 40 people.

The Museum supported ‘Wiltshire’s Story : Wiltshire in 100 Objects’ exhibition, organised by

Wiltshire Museum. One image and a non-collection item (a sarsen sett) have been contributed

and the Curator also advised on and wrote copy for an early Neolithic pot.

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OPERATION OF THE MUSEUM

15 Visitor figures

The total numbers of individuals visiting the Museum, entering either through the Barn or the Stables as

their first entry point, was 66,301 for the year. A decline from the peak of 90,652 in 2012-13, when the

Manor Reborn was launched, was expected, but appears to have slowed (18,827 (21%) decline between

years one and two, but only 5,524 (just over 8%) between years two and three).

58,454 57,390

50,731

47,160 46,324 46,363 46,536 46,011 46,47553,189

90,652

71,82566,301

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Visitor figures during the autumn and early winter exceeded those of the previous year, as they

did again towards year end. Figures for the four final weeks of the year, which include February

half term, exceeded the previous year’s by 617. February half-term figures have historically been

influenced by the weather (as the Museum is part of an outdoor visit for most visitors) but

February half term 2015 was not notable for particularly good weather. A possible explanation for

the increase may be that the doubling of primary school age children visiting has resulted either in

them suggesting to their parents/carers that they visit Avebury, or that the organization of the

visits themselves (letters home etc) has reminded people of Avebury as a possible destination

for a family visit.

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Stables footfall 2008-2015

Footfall figures

In addition to overall number of visitors, footfall in each gallery is also recorded (so, for example,

a visitor who first enters the Museum through the Barn is counted only once for overall Museum

entry, but would be counted for footfall each time they enter the galleries during the day). Footfall

in Stables was 40,567 for the year, a slight decline from the previous year (42,191; 4%). Footfall

was particularly high during the autumn months (weeks 33-40) reaching a six-year high for

weeks 37-40, partly due to the increase in primary school visiting. The final four week period of

the year was also relatively high, at the third highest out of the six years illustrated.

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Barn Footfall 2008 - 2015

16 Events & Activities The Museum Curator delivered two free ‘Meet the Expert’ tours around the henge (with handling

collection) as part of the Festival of British Archaeology.

This year the decision was taken to run the Museum ‘Pick & Mix’ activities - which have run in

previous years for two days during the Festival of British Archaeology - for at least one half day

each week throughout the summer school holidays. (Because of pressure of visitor numbers on

the property on summer weekends no extra activities are delivered on Saturdays and Sundays,

and in summer 2013 the two weeks of Festival of British Archaeology only included two non-

school weekdays in Wiltshire, which led to low numbers of participants.) This year the activities

were run for 6 half-days throughout August, reaching just under 200 children. The Curator and

Curatorial Assistant delivered the activities - mini (sandpit) digs, pottery-making, and a Beaker

burial activity - assisted by volunteers and a university student (Reading University

undergraduate).

Overall footfall for the Barn was 57,453, a 7% decline (4,477) from the previous year. Winter

footfall was particularly low because long periods of very low temperatures necessitated closure

for longer than in milder winters.

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As sandpit mini-digs are perennially popular it was decided to create an additional, similar,

activity which would have more educational content. Curatorial Assistant Michele Drisse sourced

a replica skeleton and dagger and created a crouched burial, also using ‘Beaker’ sherds made

by the Curator. Michele had studied human remains at M.A. level and was keen to use her

knowledge and experience to give the activity more content and so developed an activity book

which helped participants look for indications of age and sex in the skeleton as well as giving

information about the accompanying artefacts. Participants had to uncover the ‘burial’ and

discover as much as they could about the skeleton and objects.

The visitor feedback on this activity was excellent, and interest was also received from visiting

teachers.

Above: the ‘Beaker burial’

‘Beaker burial’

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For the Christmas period an ‘Odd One Out’ tour was run in Stables in which objects which did not

‘belong’ were placed in the cases, each object bearing some relation to the artefacts adjacent to

it (e.g. a toy axe in a case with Neolithic axeheads) as well as mini-figures for small children to

find. This has been run annually at Christmas for several years and is a popular seasonal

feature, with 91 children participating this year.

Modern milk bottle hidden among Windmill Hill

Neolithic pots. Sherds from Windmill Hill, analysed for

preserved residues have shown that some of the pots

had contained milk.

17 The Barn being re-thatched in autumn 2013.

18 Marketing, Publicity and Social Media

The FragmeNTs blog (on archaeology at Avebury, set up in 2013) was continued with the

Museum Curator, Curatorial Assistant and Archaeologist posting during the excavation in July -

August. Volunteer Mike Robinson supplied many of the photographs used.

The Archaeologist and House Manager continued to maintain the @AveburyNT Twitter account.

The account had approximately 3,000 followers at year end.

The Archaeologist recorded three interviews on Avebury and about Between The Monuments for

Swindon Community Radio and the Museum Curator recorded one on Alexander Keiller for the

same radio station. Both interviews were broadcast in several parts and were picked up by other

radio stations, including Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Bristol.

19 Museum Facilities

As the infrastructure of both galleries of the Museum is between 40+ years old (Stables) and 15

years (Barn) some remedial work is necessary in most years. During this year some work took

place on the interactives in the Barn Gallery.

20 Retail

Sales of the NT site guide and the Pitkin guide Alexander Keiller, Avebury’s Unconventional

Archaeologist, both written by the Museum Curator, including those from the NT shop as well as

from the gallery shops in Barn and Stables, are as follows:

21 Staff & Volunteers

The Curator delivered a training session to staff and volunteers on the life and work of Alexander

Keiller, in preparation for the publication of the guidebook on Keiller; she also helped to deliver

two induction sessions for staff and volunteers. For the inductions the Curator provided a short

presentation on the history of the National Trust at Avebury, and of the Museum, with a guided

tour of the Study Room and Store.

The total number of hours worked by volunteers in or from the Museum was 3,025 hours, by 49

volunteers.

Over the New Year period the Avebury web pages were in the top 5 most visited pages on the

NT SW Region website. (source - NT SW weekly marketing update 7 January)

Museum shop sales NT shop sales Site total

Site Guide 2,174 3,484 5,658

Keiller guide 211 92 303

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The Museum Curator and Curatorial Assistant attended meetings of the Wiltshire Museums

Group.

Conferences, day courses and workshops

The Museum Curator attended:

- a one-day conference of the Society for Landscape Studies on ‘Aspects of the Historic

Landscape of Wiltshire’.

- a one-day South West Museums Federation workshop on ‘Major Museum Projects’.

- the National Trust annual Everything Speaks conference on interpretation.

INTERPRETATION

The Museum Curator has responsibility for interpretation across the Avebury property.

The Museum Curator assisted the VSM, Gardener-in-Charge and Volunteer Co-ordinator in the

setting up of Manor Garden guided tours, on the same model as the volunteer-delivered henge

tours. In particular she supplied historical information for the guide training material and helped

deliver training.

The Museum Curator supplied comments to the WHS Officer on the draft WHS Management

Plan section on interpretation for Avebury.

Alexander Keiller. Avebury’s Unconventional

Archaeologist, a guidebook published by Pitkin

Guides in association with the National Trust and

written by the Museum Curator, was published on

1st July.

The Director General of the National Trust, Dame Helen Ghosh, visited the Museum, henge, and

the West Kennet Avenue excavations in July.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Museum Curator assisted with the

implementation of the Dressing Mrs Dunch

costume project, which is led by House

Assistant Dawn Gill and is producing a

costume based on dresses of c. 1560, using

the techniques of the time

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ARCHAEOLOGY

. The Museum Curator, Curatorial Assistant and Archaeologist took part in the Between the

Monuments’ Project excavation on West Kennet Avenue occupation site (in which the NT is a

partner with University of Southampton (Dr Joshua Pollard), University of Leicester (Dr Mark

Gillings) and Allen Environmental (Dr Michael Allen).) The excavation took place for three weeks

in July - August.

The Museum Curator continued to work on Grooved Ware from the Stonehenge Riverside

Project with the assistance of volunteer Jim Gunter

The Archaeologist and Museum Curator attended meetings of the Avebury & Stonehenge

Archaeological & Historical Research Group and the Curatorial Assistant was accepted as a

member and attended one meeting.

Between the Monuments West

Kennet Avenue occupation site

excavation summer 2014

Not dog biscuits but Fengate Ware, a form of Middle Neolithic

impressed pottery from the 2014 excavations. Photo: Mike Robinson

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Professor Tim Darvill of Bournemouth University and Dr Fritz Lüth of the German

Archaeological Institute in Berlin have started systematically surveying the Avebury part of the

World Heritage Site using a vehicle-drawn multi-channel gradiometer. This allows rapid

coverage of field surfaces and is already revealing important new sites and monuments. To

date, three seasons of work by the Avebury Landscape Extensive Geophysical Survey project

in the period 2012-2014 has achieved coverage of about 10 per cent of the Avebury WHS

landscape with further work is programmed for 2015 and beyond.

AVEBURY MANOR

The Museum Curator line manages the House Manager and oversees research and

interpretation in the Manor; the Curatorial Assistant works three days per week in the Manor.

This section reports the work of those two members of staff only, not that of the House Manager

or seasonal house staff except where working with the Museum Curator or Curatorial Assistant.

The Museum Curator and Curatorial Assistant were part of a project to conserve the Tudor

Parlour ceiling, which was found to be at risk early in the year. The stabilisation of the ceiling

was completed in September 2014.

A funding request was put into the NT Centre & Associations ‘wish list’ for providing a more

permanent version of the ‘time line’ created in 2013-2014 by the Curatorial Assistant. This was

successful as the Bath National Trust Centre donated the requested £500; at year end the work

on the timeline was planned for 2015-2016.

Two small exhibitions initiated by the Museum Curator were developed and implemented by the

House Manager and House Assistant in the Manor.:

House Manager Cathrien van Hak developed the idea of representing the creators of the

interiors for the Manor Reborn BBC project into ’Something Old, Something New ‘, which

was installed in the Servants Hall from September.

House Assistant Dawn Gill created a small exhibition - Dressing Mrs Dunch - on the Tudor

costume project for an upper room in the Manor

From the Dressing Mrs Dunch exhibition by House Assistant

Dawn Gill.

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The Museum Curator produced cards for the showrooms highlighting the apotropaic cat and

marks within the Manor (as part of a project to record, make available to the public and publish

apotropaic practices and non-apotropaic graffiti within the Manor which is in progress).

The Curatorial Assistant drafted an Emergency Plan for the Manor.

The birthday of the founder of the Museum - Alexander Keiller - is celebrated each year, and

incorporates a quiz for the Manor Room guides, created by the Museum Curator; this took place

in December.

Work continued on research and developing training sessions and materials for the Manor room

guides.

Activity cards for Avebury Manor

(young adult and early years

versions) created by the Curatorial

Assistant.

The Curatorial Assistant’s work on interpretation in the Manor included:

Creating ‘flash’ cards for three different age groups (older and younger children and young

adults)

Refreshing the room interpretation sheets

Creating a book of the timeline, so that the information remained available when the

timeline was taken down (the display panels were needed for the interiors exhibition and

the room required redecoration)

Creating a temporary display of a presumed apotropaic desiccated cat from the Manor

garden within the Manor for October half-term.

Image from the timeline

created by Emma Weston

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Appendix 1

Composition of the Advisory Board in 2014-2015

Independent Chair :

Professor Timothy Darvill OBE, Director of the Centre for Archaeology and Anthropology,

Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University.

South West Museum Council:

Mr Stephen Bird (Head of Heritage Services, Bath and North East Somerset Council).

English Heritage nominees (2 positions)

Mr Michael Corfield (Chief Scientist, English Heritage, retired)

Vacant position

National Trust nominees (2 positions)

Dr Amanda Chadburn (EH Senior National Rural and Environmental Advisor and member of the

National Trust Archaeology Panel)

Mr Timothy Burge (Museums Officer, Wiltshire Council)

Curator Board Members*

Mr Stephen Ponder (NT regional Curator) (from November 2014)

EH position vacant

*During 2014 it was agreed between the parties that regional/territorial Curators from each party

would sit on the Board as Members in addition to the two nominees from each party. Mr Stephen

Ponder (NT regional Curator who provides advice to the Avebury property) took his place as a

Member for the November meeting; the EH position was vacant for that meeting.

Non-Member attendees during the year included Dr Rosamund Cleal (NT Museum Curator,

Alexander Keiller Museum), Miss Michele Drisse (NT Curatorial Assistant AKM and Avebury

Manor); Dr Sarah Lunt (English Heritage, West Territory Curator, retired); Dr Nick Snashall (NT

Archaeologist for Stonehenge & Avebury WHS) and Mrs Jan Tomlin (NT General Manager,

Wiltshire Landscape).

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Appendix 2

Museum staff & volunteers 2014-2015, Archaeologist & Avebury Manor House Manager

Museum Curator: Rosamund Cleal PhD, FSA, MCIfA

Curatorial Assistant (Museum & Manor) Michele Drisse MA

National Trust Archaeologist for the Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site:

Nick Snashall PhD, MCIfA

Avebury Manor House Manager: Drs* Cathrien van Hak

Visitor Services Manager: Eleanor Eaton MA

Museum Visitor Services Supervisor : Carole Taylor

Museum Visitor Services Assistants: Matthew Claridge MA

(to September 2014; from September 2014 Senior Business Support Co-ordinator NT Wiltshire

Landscape)

Dianne Philips

Emma Weston

Volunteer Co-ordinator: Chris Penny

Seasonal staff:

Mark Aylward-Greenway (to October 2014)

Michael England (to June 2014)

Hester Haydock BA

Raymond Hurd

Sarah Malina (Visitor Experience Officer; seasonal)

Keith Maxwell

Jenni Mills MA

Judith Oliver BA

Diane Phillips

Marcus Thompson

Anne Turner

Emma Weston

* Doctorandus (MA equivalent) through Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Raquel Anstie de Mas (AKM)

Mary Brodie (HT)

Phillip Brown (HT)

John Brownell (HT)

Peter Budden (AKM) (HT)

Pat Carr (AKM) (HT)

Les Clemenson (HT)

Rosemary Curtis (AKM)

Imogen Dobie (C)

Betty Dobson (AKM)

John Farrow (HT)

Jenny Ferris (AKM)

David Griffiths (HT)

James Gunter (C)

Marilyn Hanratty (AKM)

Danielle Harding (C)

Steve Harris (HT)

Sonia Heywood (HT)

Alison Hodgson (AKM)

Ray Hurd (AKM)

Bob Husband (HT)

Graham Jackson (AKM)

June Jackson (AKM)

Sheila King (AKM)

Michael Law (AKM) (HT)

Gordon McGowan (AKM)

Keith Maxwell (AKM)

Mike Mizen (AKM)

John Needle (HT)

Margaret Nicholls (HT)

Brenda Nolan (AKM)

Avril Porter (HT)

David Poulton (HT)

Alun Powell (AKM)

Claudine Pynn (AKM) (HT)

Jean Reeves (AKM)

Mike Robinson (HT)

Alan Rose (AKM)

Malcolm Sillars (HT)

Linda Still (AKM)

Annie Somers-Hall (HT)

Alina Trigger (AKM) (HT)

Dawn Twelftree (HT)

Richard Whitfield (HT)

AKM : Volunteer in Museum galleries

HT: Henge tour guide

C: Curatorial

Appendix 2

Volunteers during 2014-15 supporting the Museum and events and tours run from the Museum