Monument record MDO8460 - Bronze Age cremation burial found in East Cemetery, Bournemouth

Beaker found in 1921 by a grave-digger. No further details are known of its discovery. The site is flat ground today. The beaker is 6.5 ins high. The ornamentation in discontinuous lines is fairly regular. <1>

EBA beaker (type'B') found c 1921. Calkin Collection, British Museum. Also fragment of a similar beaker found c 1921 now in Richards Collection, Birmingham Museum. <3>

Site now grave covered. The cemetery Supt states there have been no other finds within the precincts. <4>

<1> Calkin, J B, 1935, Transactions of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 1935, 26, Fig 2 (Article in serial). SWX4373.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1941 (Map). SWX1197.

(SZ 12059265) Bronze Age Beaker found

<3> Calkin, J B, Annotated Record Map Corr 6, 1949 (Map). SWX8214.

<4> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 17-NOV-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458864 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 9 2023 4:28PM