EDO7042 - Long barrow on Blandford Race Down, Tarrant Launceston; excavation 1840

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Location

Grid reference ST 9295 0885 (point)
Map sheet ST90NW
Civil Parish Tarrant Launceston; Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1840

Description

A long barrow on Blandford Race Down was opened in 1840 by J H Austen, who found an extended inhumation, probably intrustive, 2½ ft. from the top.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <1> Monograph: Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866). Part 2, no. 27.
  • <2> Serial: Society of Antiquaries of London. 1944. Archaeologia 90. 90. 48-80.
  • <3> Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 82.
  • <4> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1972. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North). 106.
  • <5>XY Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651458. [Mapped feature: #8613 ]

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Nov 6 2020 10:39AM

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