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EWX538 - The Seven Barrows, Wareham Town; excavation 1844

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Location

Grid reference	SY 91251 88826 (point)
Map sheet	SY98NW
Civil Parish	Wareham St Martin; Dorset
Unitary Authority	Dorset

Technique(s)

EXCAVATION

Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1844

Description

NRHE: Notes relating to this excavation are in Shipp's scrapbook: SHIPP,W./1862/Dorsetshire/III:163 which is held in the Museum Library.

Sources/Archives (4)

<1> SWX2974 Monograph: Wools, C. 1839. The Barrow Diggers. A dialogue in imitation of the Grave Diggers in Hamlet.. p66.
<2> SWX8166 Monograph: Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866). 2:3.
<3> SDO150 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3.
<4> SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650562.

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Sep 6 2021 3:00PM

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