Monument record MDO8457 - Iron Age occupation, Hillbrow Road, Bournemouth

Evidence of Iron Age occupation was recovered by Herbert Druitt while excavating two round barrows and a cremation cemetery in 1909. Material from this site in the Druitt collection at the Red House Museum, Christchurch includes pottery, pieces of shale, and ironstone.

Among the miscellaneous material from Hillbrow in the Druitt Collection, are fragments of three I.A. bowls, with enough contemporary material to indicate the presence of Iron Age 'A' people in the neighbourhood. Seven small perforated stones were found close together, probably part of a necklace; two pieces of Kimmeridge shale and many lumps of ironstone may also be relics of this period. These were founs between the large barrow and Southbourne Road. <1>

<1> Calkin, J B, 1950, Prehistoric Pokesdown, Proceedings of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society 40, 79-88 (Article in serial). SWX7425.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458858 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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