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EDO7029 - Telegraph Clump, Tarrant Hinton; 19th-century excavations by Shipp

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Location

Grid reference	ST 9220 0941 (point)
Map sheet	ST90NW
Civil Parish	Tarrant Hinton; Dorset

Technique(s)

EXCAVATION

Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

Not recorded.

Description

W Shipp opened a barrow 'near the Telegraph' which contained a human leg-bone beneath a large cairn.

Sources/Archives (4)

<1> SWX8166 Monograph: Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866). Part 2, No. 5.
<2> SDO132 Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 134.
<3>XY SDO99 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1972. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North). 100. [Mapped feature: #8600 ]
<4> SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 651445.

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Record last edited

Nov 6 2020 10:26AM

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