EDO7302 - The Seven Barrows, Wareham Town; antiquarian excavation 1844

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Location

Grid reference SY 9114 8865 (point)
Map sheet SY98NW
Civil Parish Wareham Town; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1844

Description

Notes relating to this excavation are held in Shipp's scrapbook: SHIPP,W./1862/Dorsetshire/III:163. Directed by Shipp and Durden

Sources/Archives (5)

  • --- Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 139.
  • <1> Monograph: Wools, C. 1839. The Barrow Diggers. A dialogue in imitation of the Grave Diggers in Hamlet.. p66.
  • <2> Monograph: Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866). 2:3.
  • <3> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 455.
  • <4> Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650556.

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May 24 2021 2:47PM

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