Monument record MDO112 - Early medieval burials in barrow on Eggardon Hill, Askerswell

Three extended and unaccompanied inhumation burials, all aligned approximately east-west, inserted into the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. Although intrinsically undated these may represent Saxon re-use of the round barrow as a burial place.

Within the enclosure are several mounds which had been assumed to be spoil heaps. However on excavation the largest of these turned out to be a round barrow with remains of one late Bronze Age urn at its circumference. In the centre were three extended inhumations lying nearly east west, all without grave goods. They may well represent re-use of the barrow in Saxon times. (PDNHAS 1984)

Radiocarbon date: HAR 6251. 1200 bp 750 ad. (Putnam 1985)

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1984, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1983, 181 (Serial). SDO83.

Putnam, W G, 1985, Letter from Bill Putnam dated 10 February 1985 (Verbal communication). SDO21463.

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