| MORTIMERWHEELER | Archaeologist noted for his excavations at Maiden Castle in Dorset and in India (8,7) |
| WHEELER | Archaeologist who oversaw excavations at Maiden Castle in Dorset; or, a cyclist or pedal pusher (7) |
| WOOLLEY | Leonard ___, archaeologist born in 1880 noted for his excavations in Mesopotamia (7) |
| PETRIE | Flinders, archaeologist noted for his work on Egyptian excavations (6) |
| LEAKEY | Mary, archaeologist noted for discovering a prehistoric skull in Tanzania (6) |
| ENGLAND | The Private Gardens of -; Tania Compton's book featuring the grounds/ gardens of properties including Ferne Park in Dorset and Ven House in Somerset (7) |
| THEWHOLESHEBANG | Article by head worker on excavations at empty house is a hit - it covers everything |
| LAYARD | In 1849, this explorer returned to Mesopotamia and continued excavations at Nineveh and Babylon, discovering in the process the huge library of Ashurbanipal, probably the earliest library ever created |
| EVANS | Former curator whose excavations at Knossos resulted in the discovery of a Bronze Age civilisation (5) |
| MINOS | On March 23, 1900, Arthur Evans began his excavations of the palace ruins in Knossos on Crete, discovering some 3,000 clay tablets with inscriptions plus many other artefacts. What is the name of this |
| POWYS | Educated at Sherborne and Cambridge, one of three literary brothers who wrote Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle (5) |
| RINGS | Neolithic henge in Dorchester, Dorset, north-east of Maiden Castle (8,5) |
| MAUMBURY | Neolithic henge in Dorchester, Dorset, north-east of Maiden Castle (8,5) |
| IDMISTON | I'm going to visit my son in East Dorset, and then my daughter and her three children in their new place just outside of Porton (8) |
| DORSET | Prehistoric peoples were active on the chalk uplands of this area. There are abundant monuments from the Neolithic Period, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. One monument, Maiden Castle, was the main town in R |
| MASTERPIECE | Eg great painting of plant in entrance to Maiden Castle? |
| JURASSIC | Name for the coast of Dorset and east Devon (8) |
| JURASSICCOAST | Name for the Dorset and east Devon shoreline (8,5) |
| IRONAGE | The prehistoric period when the hill fort known as Maiden Castle was constructed (4,3) |
| YEO | River of Dorset and Somerset - in Skye, oddly! (3) |
