EWX418 - Barrow on Creech Barrow, Church Knowle; excavation before 1856

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Location

Grid reference SY 92100 82330 (point)
Map sheet SY98SW
Civil Parish Church Knowle; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Not recorded.

Date

1856

Description

A barrow excavated by Austen, containing three primary contracted inhumations, one with a trepanned roundel from a child's skull, in a flint cairn; and two secondary extended inhumations. Purbeck Papers reference needs checking.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650436.
  • --- Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 442.
  • --- Monograph: Austen, J H. 1856-7. Purbeck Papers 1. 55-56.

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Jul 16 2021 12:35PM

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