Amesbury

Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is maximum well-known for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the Amesbury Archer—dubbed the King of Stonehenge inside the press—in 2002. It has been showed by archaeologists that it's miles the oldest constantly occupied settlement within the United Kingdom, having been first settled around 8820 BC. King Alfred the Great left it in his will, a duplicate of which is inside the British Library, to his youngest son Aethelweard.

Eleanor of Provence, Queen consort of Henry III of England, died in Amesbury on 24 or 25 June 1291, and was buried in Amesbury Priory. The parish consists of the hamlets of Ratfyn and West Amesbury, and maximum of Boscombe Down army airfield. The land round Amesbury has been settled due to the fact that prehistoric instances, evidenced by using the monument of Stonehenge.

Other unearths within the parish factor to massive scale prehistoric structures and settlements in the complete place, such as Bluestonehenge at West Amesbury, the numerous other monuments round Stonehenge, the discovery of a Neolithic village inside the neighbouring parish of Durrington via the Stonehenge Riverside Project, and persevering with excavations at Boscombe Down wherein Wessex Archaeology discovered the Amesbury Archer and Boscombe Bowmen. They at the moment are on display at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. Amesbury is identified as the oldest constantly occupied UK agreement.