EDO7026 - Hyde Hill Plantation Barrow Group, Tarrant Launceston; excavation 1840
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Location
| Grid reference | ST 9515 1037 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | ST91SE |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Not recorded.
Date
1840
Description
Two of this group of barrows were opened by Charles Warne in 1840. He found a primary cremation under a flint cairn in one and another yielded only charcoal and ashes (C.T.D., Pt. 1, Nos. 39 and 40). The 'Launceston Sepulchralia' examined by Warne in 1840 probably lay in this area; it appears to have been a cremation cemetery, with the cremations in groups of holes in the chalk, each group being covered with a layer of closely packed flint nodules (C.T.D., Pt. 1, 57-8; Arch. J., CVIII (1951), 14, note 1).
Sources/Archives (6)
- <1> SWX8166 Monograph: Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866). 2:3.
- <2> SDO132 Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 135.
- <3> SDO99 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1972. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North). 109.
- <4>XY SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651465. [Mapped feature: #8595 ]
- <5>XY SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651466. [Mapped feature: #8595 ]
- <6>XY SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651467. [Mapped feature: #8595 ]
Record last edited
Nov 5 2020 4:43PM
