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EDO6805 - Barrow in Barrow Coppice, Sixpenny Handley; excavations 1888

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Location

Grid reference	ST 9686 1792 (point)
Map sheet	ST91NE
Civil Parish	Sixpenny Handley; Dorset

Technique(s)

EXCAVATION

Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1888

Description

Pitt-Rivers excavated this bowl barrow in 1888. He found a cremation near the centre.

Sources/Archives (3)

<1> SDO16623 Monograph: Pitt-Rivers, A H L F. 1898. Excavations in Cranborne Chase near Rushmore on the Borders of Dorset and Wilts 1893-96 Volume IV. II:3.
<2> SDO129 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1975. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East). 72.
<3> SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651268.

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Jun 18 2020 3:23PM

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