EDO488 - Bowl barrow in the Eweleaze Barn Barrow Group, Four Barrow Hill, Winterborne St Martin; excavation 1902

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Location

Grid reference SY 6476 8746 (point)
Map sheet SY68NW
Civil Parish Winterborne St Martin; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1902

Description

Excavated in 1905. A crouched (male?) inhumation was found in a chalk cut grave under the flint cairn, including burnt and unburnt human bones, potsherds, flint flakes and a scraper.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651136.
  • --- Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1904. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1903. 24. 23-25.
  • --- Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 469.
  • --- Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 159.
  • --- Monograph: Hine, R A. 1914. History of Beaminster. 3.

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May 20 2021 10:00AM

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