EDO6890 - Bowl barrow on Oakley Down, Wimborne St Giles; excavation 1949

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Location

Grid reference SU 0176 1704 (point)
Map sheet SU01NW
Civil Parish Wimborne St Giles; Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1949

Description

In the 1940s two secondary cremation burials in urns, and the remains of an inhumation burial were found just below the surface of the mound.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <1> Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1951. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1950. 72. 91-92.
  • <2> Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1952. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951. 73. 103.
  • <3> Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1955. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1953. 75. 36.
  • <4> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1975. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East). 102.
  • <5>XY Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651399. [Mapped feature: #8410 ]

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Oct 3 2022 4:12PM

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