EDO6909 - Bowl barrow on Handley Hill, Sixpenny Handley; excavation 1896

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Location

Grid reference SU 0099 1655 (point)
Map sheet SU01NW
Civil Parish Sixpenny Handley; Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1896

Description

Excavations by General Pitt-Rivers in 1893 revealed an encircling ditch and at the centre of the mound a cremation in a circular pit. Two secondary cremations with collared urns were found. A crouched inhumation with a bronze awl placed against the top of its skull was also found, and assumed to be a scondary burial.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <1> Monograph: Pitt-Rivers, A H L F. 1898. Excavations in Cranborne Chase near Rushmore on the Borders of Dorset and Wilts 1893-96 Volume IV. 147.
  • <2> Monograph: Abercromby, J. 1912. A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. II:40.
  • <3> Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 114.
  • <4> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1975. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East). 71.
  • <5>XY Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651263. [Mapped feature: #8435 ]

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Sep 2 2020 7:34PM

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