EDO5025 - Discovery of human burial at Sherborne Abbey by workmen during 1885

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Location

Grid reference	ST 6377 1648 (point)
Map sheet	ST61NW
Civil Parish	Sherborne; Dorset
Unitary Authority	Dorset

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CASUAL OBSERVATION

Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1885

Description

A human burial was dug up about 1885 at the west end of Sherborne Abbey. 'The workmen lightheartedly distributed the contents to Shirburnian bystanders as genuine relics of St. Aldhelm. Their claim can hardly be substantiated, but next day the bones were hastily collected by authority throughout the school.' (1)

Sources/Archives (1)

<1> SDO10232 Monograph: Gourlay, A B. 1951. A history of Sherborne School. p.4, footnote 4.

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Aug 30 2007 10:11AM

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