EDO6793 - Hambledon Hill, Child Okeford; excavations 1974-1986

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Location

Grid reference ST 8486 1208 (point)
Map sheet ST81SW
Civil Parish Child Okeford; Dorset

Technique(s)

Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1974-1986

Description

NRHE summary: Excavations of the neolithic causewayed enclosure, long barrow and cross-dyke. Annual notes published between 1975-1978 and 1980-1982. English Heritage Arch. Review 1986 mentions small scale excavation in 1986.

Sources/Archives (10)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651369.
  • --- Index: RCHME Microfilm Index. 6460.
  • --- Article in serial: Mercer, R J. 1985. A Neolithic Fortress and Funeral Center; Scientific American.
  • --- Monograph: Mercer, R. 1980. Hambledon Hill. A Neolithic landscape.
  • --- Monograph: Mercer, R, and Healy, F. 2008. Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England. Excavation and survey of a Neolithic monument complex and its surrounding landscape.
  • --- Monograph: Burgess, C, Topping, P, Mordant, C, and Maddison, M (eds). 1988. Enclosures and defences in the Neolithic of western Europe. 89-106.
  • --- Serial: English Heritage. 1997. English Heritage Archaeology Review 1996-7.
  • --- Serial: English Heritage. 1986. English Heritage Archaeology Review 1986.
  • <1> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1. 82-83.
  • <2> Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1981. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1979. 101. 101.

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Jun 18 2020 10:59AM

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