AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE LIFE OF A.D. PASSMORE 279 
ri 
a. ea 
Bey Te 
os 
enc Ig 
LES SATE ee an tate 4 + AEs feng, : 
EI i en a yee den (Aogee 
wk te odo (pate) 
opie lg) ocala tordAgele 
the engines used to slip over it when coming there 
threshing. Have tried to find the one supposed to be 
under the Brewery but could not, the men know 
nothing of it (14 — 6 — 1922). Stone just inside door of 
Brewery garden buried 7ft deep. NW of this, in bank 
between two small fields, there are several large 
stones. (ADP unpublished 1922, 283 — 284) 
The final repository for this manuscript was 
obviously a concern for Passmore. One of the more 
amusing pages shows his change in favour over 
time. On December 3, 1910, he wrote: ‘I wish to 
leave this book to the Museum of the Wilts 
Archaeological Society. Unless there is a proper 
museum in Swindon (not any Technical School 
foolery) in which case it should go there but unless 
it is a first class show let the book go to the W.A. 
Society.’ In 1914, he wrote ‘Swindon Museum off. 
Send book to Devizes, A.D.P’, which is reinforced 
in 1930 with ‘Not to Swindon on any account 
whatever.’ However, all of this is scribbled out, and 
the final comment is ‘Cancelled A.D. Passmore 
June/1952’ (ADP unpublished, 3). 
Passmore was alive when Leslie Grinsell put 
together the archaeological gazetteer as part of the 
Victoria History of Wiltshire (Grinsell 1957), and his 
Fig 5 A typical page in Passmore’s field notebook (WANHS Library, Devizes). For transcription see page 278 opposite 
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Leer oh 
Pats Poe aot 
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- 1 
| oa 
rie Be i 
(heh 
hong Uh, 
ING oNAg ete fea i 
ee a 
Stowe ie 
Foes oe 
fost foe eile oS) ent Ais 
Ga ee 
Ga ek foe 
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field notebook was still in his possession. The 
gazetteer contains references to Passmore’s 
published work, but on the whole his unpublished 
manuscript is rarely cited in archaeological 
publications. 
A.D. PASSMORE AND THE 
WILTSHIRE 
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND 
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
Passmore was a member of the WANHS for about 
sixty years, listed as being on the ‘Committee’ for 
almost thirty years. He contributed a substantial 
number of articles and notes to the Wiltshire 
Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (see 
Appendix 1), the first published in 1893 and the last 
in 1950, with regular contributions in between. He 
also recorded information for M.W. Willson’s bird 
reports (Willson 1931), and made _ financial 
donations for various WANHS projects, including 
maintenance work on the museum in Devizes, and 
the funding of urgent local archaeological projects. 
