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Time Team’s Phil Harding joined pupils from the newly built Amesbury Archer Gate Primary School to bury a time capsule.
Swaythling Housing Society, part of the Radian Group, arranged the event to mark the starting point of the school’s history.
Phil Harding enjoyed helping the community to mark the beginning of its own history. Phil said, “This is the community’s own record of what is going on for future generations and includes ideas of how we think things will be in the future. It is a wonderful thing to do.”
The land on which the school and surrounding homes stand is of considerable archaeological interest. In 2002 archaeologists uncovered the Amesbury Archer, a Bronze Age man of high standing, whose grave contained the first gold relics found from this time period. It also provided the Boscombe Bowman findings, graves from around 2300 BC, believed to be the builders of Stonehenge.
Swaythling Housing Society is developing 129 new homes on the Archer’s Gate development. The houses will provide affordable homes for rent and shared ownership, and are part funded by the Housing Corporation.
For additional information contact Annabel Bruxner-Randall at Swaythling Housing Society on 023 8062 8374 or email annabelb@swayhs.org.uk.
