Monument record MDO47104 - Bronze Age barrow and two urns recovered 1843 and 1846

Compilers note - two Scheduled monuments, bowl barrows, lie 400m to the south of this location. (List entry numbers 1016283, 1016282). The given location lies just outside the Registered Park and Garden (II*) of Charborough Park (List entry 1000713). (1)

Two Middle Bronze Age urns from a barrow at Sturminster Marshall are in the Henry Durden Collection at the British Museum. (Catalogue 18-20 Nos. 20 and 42) (2)

The barrow was not located during field investigation and no further information was obtained. (3)

Two collared early-middle Bronze Age urns from an unlocated barrow at Sturminster Marshall, found in 1843. (4 & 4a)

Brief descriptions of the urns, one of which was found in 1843, the other in 1846. The barrow was situated in a field near the pond in Charborough Park (SY 916985). (5)

<1> 1915, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments (Verbal communication). SDO20122.

<1> 1915, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, 08-Sep-15 (Verbal communication). SDO20122.

<2> FRANK D COLQUHOUN, 1951, Bronze Age barrow and two urns recovered 1843 and 1846, F1 FDC 20-OCT-51 (Excavation archive). SDO20121.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 17-MAR-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4a> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 132 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Calkin, J B, 1967, 'Some Records of Barrow Excavations Re-Examined'; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society fo4 1966, 138, 88 (Article in serial). SDO17238.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 50 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 13 2023 10:27AM