EDO6846 - Bowl barrow, Winterborne Whitechurch; excavation 1864

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Location

Grid reference	ST 8610 0134 (point)
Map sheet	ST80SE
Civil Parish	Winterborne Whitechurch; Dorset

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EXCAVATION

Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1864

Description

The antiquarian William Shipp investigated a barrow on Whitechurch Down in 1864, and it is thought likely to have been this barrow. Shipp found a flint cairn over a circular cist containing a cremation, and four later inhumation burials within the mound.

Sources/Archives (1)

<1>XY SDO136 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments. 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2. 2. 314. [Mapped feature: #8365 ]

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Record last edited

Aug 20 2020 11:42AM

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