Monument record MDO47449 - Barrow and artefacts, Puddletown

From a barrow in Dorset, perhaps at Puddletown, came ornaments of amber and shale, in the form of a cone very much depressed, coated with thin gold plate, engraved with concentric, diagonal and zig zag lines. (1)

Barrel shaped beads of shale, about nine tenths of an inch long covered with gold wire.

(It is not clear, but is considered probable that paragraphs 1 and 2 refer to the same finds but authority (2) suggests that they are possibly separate burials).

Grave goods of Wessex Culture (2).

No further information regarding the site(s) of these finds was obtained during field investigation. (3)

<1a> The Archaeological Institute of Norwich, 1847, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute of Norwich (Article in serial). SDO20317.

<1> Society of Antiquaries of London, 1871, Archaeologia 43, 530 (Serial). SDO17248.

<2> Piggott, S, 1938, 'The Early Bronze Age in Wessex'; Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 103 (Article in serial). SDO10120.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 1 2023 12:05AM