EWX912 - 100 yards N of Hardy Monument, Portesham; excavation 1878

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Location

Grid reference SY 61320 87610 (point)
Map sheet SY68NW
Civil Parish Portesham; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1878

Description

NRHE: Cunnington manuscript in DCM Library (No.52). Barrow not located with certainty. May be the two bowl barrows on Black Down immediately east of the Hardy Monument (RSM No 31914).

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651033.
  • --- Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1916. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916. 37. 47.
  • --- Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 126.
  • --- Article in serial: Thompson, M W, and Ashbee, P. 1957. Excavation of a barrow near the Hardy monument, Black Down, Portesham, Dorset; Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 23.

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May 17 2023 3:18PM

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