EWX424 - Barrow on Knowle Hill (Austen No 2), Church Knowle; excavation 1861

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Location

Grid reference SY 94576 82363 (point)
Map sheet SY98SW
Civil Parish Church Knowle; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1861

Description

One of two bowl barrows on Knowle Hill excavated in 1861 by the Reverend J H Austen. This barrow contained a crouched burial at the centre and some two feet below the top of the mound. Austen also noted a deposit of black ashes "close at the back of the skeleton and extending beneath it".

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650442.
  • --- Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 442.
  • --- Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1956. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1954. 76. 51.
  • --- Monograph: Austen, J H. Purbeck Papers. 55-6.

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Sep 3 2021 2:49PM

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