Monument record MDO6555 - Cist, Sweet Hill, Southwell

A coffin of Portland stone coffin was found when a new road was cut in 1950. The coffin had a ridge roofed lid and contained some hob nails. It was damaged at the time of discovery and no bones or pottery could be associated with it with certainty.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1951, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1950, 83 (Serial). SDO50.

'In November (1950) another Portland stone coffin with ridge-roofed lid was found, this time during the cutting by mechanical excavatorof a road to the new naval establishment near Southwell. The burial had been damaged at the time of discovery and Lt. Col. Drew who inspected it, was not able to find any bones or pottery which could be assigned with certainty to it. There were, however, a number of hob-nails in the coffin.'

Farrar, R A H, 1952, Archaeological Fieldwork in Dorset in 1951 (Article in serial). SWX2107.

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