EDO7562 - Barrow in Calcot's Wood, Sixpenny Handley; excavation 1888

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Location

Grid reference ST 9560 1738 (point)
Map sheet ST91NE
Civil Parish Sixpenny Handley; Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1888

Description

Pitt-Rivers excavated this barrow in 1888. He found no burials and it appeared to have been investigated previously.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651267.
  • --- Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1975. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East).
  • --- Monograph: Pitt Rivers, A H L F. 1888. Excavations in Cranborne Chase. Volume 2: Excavations in Barrows Near Rushmore Excavations in Romano-British Village, Rotherley/ Excavations in Winkelbury Camp/ Excavations in British Barrows and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Winkelbury Hill. 37.

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May 31 2023 10:40AM

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