EWX1103 - The Down at Knowle, Church Knowle; excavation 1859

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Location

Grid reference SY 93080 82100 (point)
Map sheet SY98SW
Civil Parish Church Knowle; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Not recorded.

Date

1859

Description

Archive ref.: Thurnam Skull Catalogue No. 131, Anglo-Saxon or Early English from a grave on the Down at Knowle..exhumed...in 1859. Inhumation burials were found in 1859 in a road cutting and adjoining areas. The burials were in parallel chalk-cut graves, lying east-west with the head at the west, and interpreted as being of probable Roman date.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3.
  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651501.

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Jul 16 2021 12:48PM

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