SDO10245 - The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 4

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Type Monograph
Title The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 4
Author/Originator
Date/Year 1873

Abstract/Summary

Third edition of Hutchins 'history and antiquities of Dorset', volume IV relates to Sherborne Hundred.

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Description

3rd Edition corrected and augmented by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. Published in four volumes between 1861 and 1870.

Location

Dorset Local Studies Library

Referenced Monuments (73)

  • Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Saint Sansom and Saint Branwalader, Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas (Listed Building)
  • Barrow, Cheselbourne (Monument)
  • Bingham's Melcombe medieval settlement, Melcombe Horsey (Monument)
  • Bronze Age hoard found near Alcroft Copse, Beer Hackett (Find Spot)
  • Bronze Age rapier found on Shapwick Down, Shapwick (Find Spot)
  • Bronze or Iron Age metalwork hoard, Hilton (Find Spot)
  • Building ten metres south-east of Clifton House (The Library), Clifton Maybank (Listed Building)
  • Burials at Thornton Down, Marnhull (Monument)
  • Burials, Whiteway, Marnhull (Monument)
  • Castleton medieval borough, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Chantmarle, Cattistock (Listed Building)
  • Chapel and hospice of St Thomas the Martyr, The Green, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Chapel at Netherstock, Halstock (Monument)
  • Chapel of Saint Catherine, Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas (Listed Building)
  • Chapel, Clifton Maybank (Monument)
  • Chapel, Sturminster Newton (Monument)
  • Chapel, Sydling St Nicholas (Monument)
  • Church of St Bartholemew, Sutton Waldron (Monument)
  • Churchyard cross, Fifehead Magdalen (Monument)
  • Churchyard cross, St Mary's Church, Church Street, Bradford Abbas (Listed Building)
  • Clifton House, Clifton Maybank (Clifton Maubank) (Listed Building)
  • Cross dyke near Ruins Plantation, Milton Abbas (Monument)
  • Deserted medieval settlement of Hanford, Hanford (Monument)
  • Deserted medieval village, Holnest (Monument)
  • Emerenciana (Nethercombe Farm), Coombe, Sherborne (Listed Building)
  • Fishpond at Pond End Coppice, Silton (Monument)
  • Fontmell Parva House, Child Okeford (Listed Building)
  • Gardens around Clifton House, Clifton Maybank (Monument)
  • Higher Cross, Cheap Street, Sherborne (Monument)
  • House, south west of St Mary's Church, Iwerne Courtney or Shroton (Building)
  • Iron Age coin hoard, Okeford Fitzpaine (Find Spot)
  • Lower Cross, South Street, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Lower Cross, South Street, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Lyscombe Chapel, Cheselbourne (Listed Building)
  • Manor Farm, Church Lane, Silton (Monument)
  • Manor house, Woolland (Listed Building)
  • Medieval chapel at Sherborne Old Castle, Castleton (Listed Building)
  • Medieval chapel at Stallen, Nether Compton (Monument)
  • Medieval cross, Newland, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Medieval deer park, Ibberton (Monument)
  • Medieval hunting lodge, Mappowder (Monument)
  • Medieval settlement of Thornton, Marnhhull (Monument)
  • Medieval settlement of Totcombe, Cerne Abbas (Monument)
  • Milton Abbey House, Milton Abbas (Listed Building)
  • Milton Abbey, (Abbey Of SS Mary The Virgin, Michael, Samson And Branwalader) (Monument)
  • Minterne House, Minterne Magna (Listed Building)
  • Mizmaze on Leigh Common, Leigh (Monument)
  • Moat in field known as Big Park, Batcombe (Monument)
  • Moat, Middlemarsh Grange, Buckland Newton (Monument)
  • Newlands Farmhouse, Batcombe (Listed Building)
  • Open field system on the south side of Church Hill, Alton Pancras (Monument)
  • Parish church of St Mary Magdalene, North Wootton (Monument)
  • Parish church of St Mary, Batcombe (Listed Building)
  • Parish church of St Michael, Beer Hackett (Listed Building)
  • Penannular ring, Milton Abbas (Find Spot)
  • Pinfold Manor House and Chapel of St James, Pinford Farm, Castleton (Monument)
  • Rawlsbury Camp, Stoke Wake (Monument)
  • Roman burial in lead coffin, Great Down Quarry, Marnhull (Monument)
  • Roman burials at Gannetts Quarry, Marnhull (Monument)
  • Round barrow on Cheselbourne Down, Cheselbourne (Monument)
  • Sherborne Castle, Castleton (Listed Building)
  • South of Newland,opposite The Avenue, Sherborne; discovery of human burials (Monument)
  • Ss John Baptist and John Evangelist Almshouse, Half Moon Street, Sherborne (Listed Building)
  • St Catherine's chapel, St Catherine's Farm, Cerne Abbas (Monument)
  • St Swithin's church, land south of Newland, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Terraces in Pigeon House Plantation, Milton Abbas (Monument)
  • The Abbey Barn, Milton Abbas (Monument)
  • The Castle, Cattistock (Monument)
  • The Old Rectory, Greenhayes, Okeford Fitzpaine (Listed Building)
  • Two Sets of Gate piers and attached Garden Walls South and West of Clifton House, Clifton Maybank (Listed Building)
  • Urn from a barrow near the Manor House, Sydling St Nicholas (Find Spot)
  • Woolcombe Maltravers, Melbury Bubb (Monument)
  • Wyke Park, Castleton (Monument)

Referenced Events (10)

  • Barrow, Godlingston Hill 120, Swanage; excavation 1826
  • Barrow, Sydling St Nicholas; excavation 1789
  • Discovery of 2 abbatial effigies, Cerne Abbey, Cerne Abbas; casual observation 1810
  • Discovery of a ceramic tiled floor, Cerne Abbey, Cerne Abbas; casual observation before 1873
  • Discovery of a possible sepulchral chapel or shrine, Cerne Abbey, Cerne Abbas c.1850
  • Discovery of human bones and ancient baptismal font; south side of Newland, Sherborne
  • Eminences on east and south sides of the parish, Sydling St Nicholas; excavation 1800 to 1899
  • Giants Trencher, Godlingston Hill, Swanage; excavation 1851
  • Round barrow 100 yards from the Cross and Hand, Batcombe; excavation 1800 to 1899
  • Round barrow, Sydling St Nicholas; excavation 1800 to 1899

Record last edited

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