Thomas Robert Guest 1754–1818

ANNC (Prehist).514
Object types: vessel
Description: vessel
Materials: ceramic
Dimensions: 3.81 cm x 5.3975 cm (top) [height x diameter]
Date: Bronze Age (Britain) (c. 2500 - c. 800 cal. BC)
Period: Bronze Age (Britain) (c. 2500 - c. 800 cal. BC)
Associated Places: Winterslow Hut Barrow Group, Wiltshire, England (place of excavation)
Associated Persons: Allan Borman Hutchins (excavator)
Acquisition: Presented by the Rev. A. B. Hutchins, 1847.

`In field not far from road which leads from Amesbury turnpike into Bulford'. Prob. either BuLFORD 2, 3, or 4. Ex. A. B. Hutchins 1824 or earlier: primary (crouched?) skeleton, grooved dagger, and beaker beneath immense sarsen; 2 secondary cremations in urns, one being LBA with applied horse shoe bands. (Wessex grave 52.) Mod. Wilts. Hund. of Alderbury, 209 Arch. xliii. 350, fig. 27; BAP 373. Dagger in ASH; beaker lost? Urn in SAL (formerly in ASH.). 

The Winterslow Hut, Bronze Age, 1500 - 1150BC
Reverend Allan Borman Hutchins, the Curate of Grately, excavated a large bell barrow near The Old Pheasant Inn at Winterslow in 1814. Within the barrow he found at least three burials. The oldest was a male buried with a beaker pot. The middle burial was a cremation accompanied by a biconical urn. The final burial was also a cremation contained in an urn along with a bronze razor and a quanitity of hair. The hair has been reanalysed and is now thought to be sheep wool rather than human hair. One of the burials contained a number of amber beads, probably from a necklace. The smaller urn is in the ‘Trevisker’ style distinctive to south west Britain and is named after a site in Cornwall where it was first recognised.

The Winterslow Hut was an inn, now known as the Pheasant Inn. It was a famous coaching inn where William Hazlitt once resided and wrote his Winterslow Essays and which, at different times, was visited by Charles and Mary Lamb and Rudyard Kipling.

 It was here that the Exeter mail coach was attacked by a lioness in 1816. The lioness was part of a menagerie on its way to Salisbury Fair and severely mauled one of the horses plus a large Newfoundland dog before being recap-tured. The coach passengers with great presence of mind locked themselves inside the inn while the keepers recaptured the lioness from under a granary. Several of the inns on the turnpike and coaching roads in southern Wiltshire were 'Huts'. There was a Cribbage Hut at Sutton Mandeville, which must have been named from the card game that was played there. The word 'Hut' may have derived from its meaning of a shelter for troops which seems to been in use from the mid 16th century. The inn provided shelter to travellers for the night and may have begun life as a wooden hut.

A Bronze Age round barrow cemetery situated to the northwest of 'The Pheasant Hotel'. The cemetery comprises at least 13 round barrows, mainly bowl barrows visible as earthworks and cropmarks. Nine of the barrows were identified by Grinsell (1957) and designated as Winterslow 4-12. Five were visible as earthworks and four recorded as levelled earthworks. Two additional barrow sites were also recorded by Grinsell (undated) and another by Stephens and Stone (1939). Aerial photographs also show many circular cropmarks, interpreted as barrow sites within the vicinity of the cemetery. Ordnance Survey field investigations in October 1970 identified four of the barrows as definite earthworks and two as slight earthworks. None of the other barrow sites could be determined. The site of one other barrow site was recorded, it was visible as a very slight earthwork. Nine of the barrows have been scheduled. Two bowl barrows survive as substantial earthworks - one is 23 metres in diameter with a maximum height of 0.8 metres. The other has a diameter of 15 metres and maximum height of 1.2 metres. Both have traces of the barrow ditch visible. Three other barrows survive as slight earthworks ranging from 20 metres to 30 metres in diameter. The sites of three more barrows are visible on aerial photographs.

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a string was used. "It was initially done by putting a piece of nylon thread in his mouth.

the gelding learned to wag his lips whenever his hoof was touched.

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Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness

And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

See here a helmet which a fearless soldier previously wore and which was often spattered with enemy blood. After peace was won, it retired to be used as a narrow hive for bees; it holds honey-combs and nice honey. - Let weapons lie far off; let it be right to embark on war only when you cannot in any other way enjoy the art of peace.

Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. ⁶ The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done. ⁷ Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.
⁸ Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. ⁹ He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
¹⁰ Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. ¹¹ When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.
¹² “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. ¹³ If you can’t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.”
“Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let’s hear it.”
¹⁴ He replied,

“Out of the eater, something to eat;
    out of the strong, something sweet.”

For three days they could not give the answer.

¹⁵ On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”
¹⁶ Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.”
“I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?” ¹⁷ She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.
¹⁸ Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,

“What is sweeter than honey?
    What is stronger than a lion?”

Samson said to them,

“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
    you would not have solved my riddle.”

¹⁹ Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father’s home. ²⁰ And Samson’s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.

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Lion's Den, 1779

progresses, processions and magnificent festivities

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1610

About this time Frederic Ulric, son of the Duke of Brunswick, arrived in England, and made a Tour to various places in this country. When in London, he was lodged and entertained by his cousin Prince Henry; and on the 20th of April, the two Princes, 'accompanied with the Duke of Lennox, the Earle of Arundell, and others, came privatly to the Tower, and caused a great Lion to be put into the yard, and four Doggs at a course to be set upon him; and they all fought with him instantly, saving such as at their first comming into the yard in their fury fell upon one another, because they saw none else with whom to fight, for the Lion kept close to the trap-doore at the further end of the yard. These were choise Dogs, and flue al at the Lion's head, whereat the Lion became enraged, and furiously bit divers Dogges by the head and throat, holding their heads and necks in his mouth, as a cat would hould a rat, and with his clawes he tore their flesh extreamly; al which notwithstanding, many of them would not let go their hould, untill they were utterly spoiled. After divers courses and spoyle of divers Doggs, and great likelihood of spoile of more, which yet lay tugging with the Lyon, for whose rescue there entred in three stout Beare-wards, and set a lustie Dogge upon the mouth of the Lyon; and the last Dog got ful hould of the Lion's tung, puld it out of his mouth, held it fast, that the Lyon neither bitte him nor any other; whereupon it was generally imagined that these Doggs would instantly spoile the Lyon, he being now out of breath, and bard from biting; and although there were now but three Doggs upon him, yet they vexed him sore; whereupon the above mentioned young lusty Lyon and Lyonesse were both put out together, to see if they would rescue the third, but they would not, but fearfully gazed upon the Doggs. Then two or three of the worst Doggs, which had left the first Lion, ran upon them, chased them up and down the yard, seeking by all means to avoyd the Doggs; and so soone as their trap-doore was open they both ran hastily into their den, and a Dog that pursued them ranne in with them, where all three, like good friends, stood very peacably without any manner of violence eyther to other; and then the three Beare-wardes came bouldly in againe, and tooke off all the Doggs but one from the Lyon, and carried them away. The Lyon having fought long, and his tongue torne, lay staring and panting a pretie while, so as all the behoulders thought hee had been utterly spoiled and spent; and upon a sodaine gazed upon that Dog which remained, and so soone as hee had spoiled him, espying the trap-doore open ranne hastilie into his den, and there never ceast walking up and downe, to and fro, untill he had brought himselfe into his former temperature.

The 23rd of June, the King, Queen, and Prince, the Lady Elizabeth, and the Duke of Yorke, with divers great Lords, and manie others, came to the Tower to see a triall of the Lyon's single valour against a great fierce Beare, which had kild a child that was negligently left in the beare-house. This fierce Beare was brought into the open yard behind the Lyon's den, which was the place for fight; then was the great Lyon put forth, who gazed awhile, but never offred to assault or approch the Beare; then were two mastife dogs put in, who past by the Beare, and boldly seazed upon the Lyon; then was a stone-horse put into the same yard, who suddenly scented and saw bothe the Beare and Lyon, and very carelesly grazed in the middle of the yard between them both: and then were sixe dogs put in, the most whereof at first seazed upon the Lyon, but then sodainly left him, and seazed upon the horse, and would have werryed him to death, but that three stout beare-wards, even as the King wished, came boldly in, and rescued the horse, by taking the dogs off one by one, whilest the Lyon and Beare stared uppon them, and so went forth with their dogs; then was that Lyon suffered to go into his den againe, which he endeavored to have done long before; and then were divers other Lyons put into that place, one after another, but they shewed no more sport nor valour than the first, and every of them so soone as they espied the trap-doores open, ran hastily to their dens; then, lastly, there were put forth together two young lustie Lyons, which were bred in that yard, and were now grown great: these at first began to march proudly towardes the Beare, which the Beare perceiving, came hastily out of a corner to meet them, and sodainly offred to fight with the Lyon, but both Lyon and Lyonesse skipt up and downe, and fearefully fled from the Beare, and so these, like the former Lyons, not willing to endure any fight, sought the next way into their denne. And the fifth of July, according to the King's commandment, this Beare was bayted to death upon a stage, and unto the mother of the murthered child was given twenty pounds out of part of that money which the people gave to see the Beare kild.

The Progresses etc of King James the First Vol. II.