EWX793 - Barrow on Lord's Down, Dewlish (Warne No 37); excavation 1800 to 1899

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Location

Grid reference SY 78480 96289 (point)
Map sheet SY79NE
Civil Parish Dewlish; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Description

This barrow was opened by antiquarian Charles Warne, who found a cremation burial in a cist, and with a bronze dagger, a whetstone, a bone pin and tweezers.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650857.
  • --- Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 105.
  • --- Monograph: Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866). I:2.
  • --- Monograph: Marsden, B M. 1974. The Barrow Diggers (1974). 70.

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Mar 29 2021 11:55AM

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