Monument record MDO3098 - Intrusive burials in a barrow in the Lanceborough Group, Winterborne Monkton

A stone cist containing an inhumation, probably Roman, was found in the top of the mound when this barrow was opened by an antiquarian in 1833-4.

Opened 1833-4. In central cist a primary? cremation with ashes in upright urn, ‘ornamented towards the bottom with lines running round it’. (?Late Bronze Age globular urn) other finds were four skeletons, with one of which were said to have been the, ‘undigested contents of the stomach containing the seeds of the wild raspberry which vegetated and produced plants’ a statement to be treated with reserve! There were two more skeletons and another urn with ashes and a ‘bone spearhead’, probably a pin. (Grinsell).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 619-620 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘An inhumation burial in a stone cist probably of this period was found near the top of the large Bronze Age bell barrow N. of Maiden Castle (SY 66698928; see Round Barrows, Winterborne Monkton (6)).’

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