Excavations at Stanton Harcourt, Oxon., 1940
By W. F. GRIMES
THE work here described was undertaken in the summer of 1940 in connexion with activities involving the mutilation if not the actual destruction of many of the ‘air-photography sites’ for which Stanton Harcourt has become famous as a result of the air-photography of the late Major G. W. G. Allen. The area concerned lay to the south of Stanton Harcourt itself, in the angle formed by the junction of the Stanton Harcourt-Bablockhythe and Stanton Harcourt-Stanlake roads, thence extending south-westwards almost to Linch Hill and the River Windrush. It included therefore the three standing-stones known as The Devil’s Quoits, which were Stanton Harcourt’s chief claim to archaeological distinction before the day of the aeroplane.
The 1940 paper is available here as a Word document
http://oxoniensia.org/vol%208-9/Grimes.doc
and PDF
http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1943-4/grimes.pdf
The more recent excavation report is viewable (just) on Google books:
Excavations at the Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt - Alistair Barclay, Margaret Gray, George Lambrick, Paperback, 140 pages, Oxford University, 1995
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0NwWwmEdBD8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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