page_title: Denis Grant King
section_title: Excavations in Wiltshire
hierarchical_section_title: Denis Grant King / Excavations in Wiltshire
caption_attribution_description: English: Lanhill Long Barrow, Wiltshire, viewed from the south with chamber entrance visible
context_page_description: Denis Grant King was an archaeological draftsman, artist, historic monument conservation campaigner and archaeologist. He worked predominantly in Wiltshire, England, most notably as Alexander Keiller’s surveyor and draftsman during the excavations at Avebury.
context_section_description: After World War II, Grant King was employed by Keiller’s archaeological successor Dr Isobel Smith on her site at Windmill Hill, Avebury. After this, he went on to lead excavations of his own.
  In 1959 Grant King headed an excavation at Bury Camp, an Iron Age Hill Fort located just outside North Wraxall, Wiltshire. His work as a teacher for the Extramural Department at the University of Bristol, as well as other outdoors groups, enabled him to source a team of volunteers dubbed the “Bury Wood Excavation Club”. He published a series of excavation reports for Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine.
  Another project was Lanhill Long Barrow (known locally as Hubba's Low). The barrow had been recorded by John Aubrey in 1647, but was subsequently largely obliterated through quarrying and invasive excavation. In 1954 the Ministry of Works gave permission for Lanhill to be cleared of brambles. Grant King wrote several letters of complaint to the Ministry and other heritage organisations, highlighting the damage caused by using a bulldozer to undertake the clearance. Ultimately, King lead an excavation in 1963 to record the barrow. He called upon his Bury Wood Excavation Club to assist in rebuilding many of the damaged areas. Through painstaking investigation he was able to construct a plan of the barrow.
caption: Lanhill Long Barrow, viewed from the south with chamber entrance visible
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