EWX401 - Bowl barrow on Bloxworth Down; excavation 1854

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Location

Grid reference SY 87670 96380 (point)
Map sheet SY89NE
Civil Parish Bloxworth; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1854

Description

This barrow was investigated by Shipp around 1854. He found a cremation burial in an urn.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650418.
  • --- Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 440.
  • --- Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 94.
  • --- Monograph: Payne, G (ed). 1892. Catalogue of the Museum of Local Antiquities collected by Mr Henry Durden of Blandford, Dorsetshire. 22.
  • --- Monograph: Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds). 1861. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 1. Vol 1. 184.

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Apr 14 2021 3:00PM

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