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Skinner was born in Claverton and educated at Oxford, before becoming vicar of Camerton, Somerset from 1800 to 1839.
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John Skinner
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He excavated numerous antiquities, especially barrows, such as those at Priddy, Stoney Littleton and the site which later became Royal Air Force Charmy Down. And he made visits for antiquarian purposes to many places. He carried excavations at Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries opening many of the barrows identified cremation burials in an oval cyst which was covered by a flat stone just below where ground level would have been in the Bronze Age.
He also uncovered bronze daggers and spear head, decorative amber beads, a bronze ring and a small incense cup.
Before his role as the vicar of Camerton from 1800 to 1839, he worked in a lawyers office. Skinner committed suicide by shooting himself in 1839, despite which he may have been buried in consecrated ground at Camerton.
