EWX592 - Northdown Barn Barrow Group, Weymouth; excavation

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Location

Grid reference SY 70839 84789 (point)
Map sheet SY78SW
Civil Parish Bincombe; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1866

Description

Excavated by Charles Warne at some time before 1866. He reported finding a cremation with mass of burnt material, probably the remains of the funeral pyre. Above was dog's skeleton immediately beneath a cremation in handled urn.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650618.
  • --- Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 143.
  • --- Monograph: Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866). 3.
  • --- Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 457.

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Apr 9 2021 5:00PM

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