• Leslie Valentine Grinsell OBE FSA (14 February 1907 – 28 February 1995) was an English archaeologist and museum curator. Publishing over twenty books...
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    Most bell barrows in the United Kingdom date to the early Bronze Age. Leslie Grinsell constructed a typology for bell barrows: Type Ia: A single mound with...
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    Menefee, published in the Folklore journal in 1975, and was part of Leslie Grinsell's catalogue of folkloric motifs associated with prehistoric sites in...
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    as being "Wayland Smith's Forge". The folklorist and archaeologist Leslie Grinsell suggested that the decision to name it this on the map was influenced...
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    Antiquity. 50 (198): 89–94. 1976. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00070824. Grinsell, Leslie (1980). "The Cerne Abbas Giant: 1764–1980". Antiquity. 54 (210): 29–33...
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  • Roger Hetherington, president of the Institution of Civil Engineers Leslie Grinsell, archaeologist Roger le Geyt Hetherington, president of the Institution...
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    1723 as being 13 feet (4.0 m) long, it is now about half that length, Leslie Grinsell suggesting that fragments have occasionally been broken off for mending...
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  • University of London, where he was in the same cohort as Sinclair Hood and Leslie Grinsell; senior by a year were Nancy Sandars, Grace Simpson, and Edward Pyddoke...
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  • Circle" on their map. In his 1970 study of the archaeology of Exmoor, Leslie Grinsell thought that it was "probably" a stone circle. The common is also the...
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    circles on Exmoor: Withypool and Porlock Stone Circle. The archaeologist Leslie Grinsell suggested that the circular stone monument on Almsworthy Common was...
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