EWX457 - Holme Lane Plantation (Austen C), East Holme; excavation 1860

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Location

Grid reference SY 90640 85280 (point)
Map sheet SY98NW
Civil Parish East Holme; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

1860

Description

Excavation of a round barrow directed by J H Austen, who found an inverted urn in a cist covered with a stone slab, and a second urn higher in the mound.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Monograph: Austen, J H. 1852-69. Papers Presented to the Purbeck Society. p233-238.
  • --- Monograph: Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866). 3: 12.
  • --- Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 445.
  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650476.

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Sep 6 2021 11:21AM

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