Monument record MDO47842 - Four round barrows, Bincombe

Listed under BINCOMBE PARISH. Excavation records of unlocated barrows above BINCOMBE. Porbably near RIDGEWAY. No 49a.

xWARNE No.43. (Primary?) deposit of ashes; three secondary or intrusive inhumations. <1.1>

No.49b. xWARNE No 6, near RIDGEWAY, opened 1784: (primary?) inurned cremation, and intensive skeletons of man, woman, and child, covered
with large stones. <1.2>

No 49c. xWARNE No 7, near RIDGEWAY, opened 1784 (primary?) deposit oftwo urns - one with burnt bones, the other containing bronze dagger;
secondary cremations, and secondary or intrusive skeletons. <1.2>

xNo 49b. Very large barrow <1.2>.

No information was obtained to enable the excavation reports contained in T.I. to be attached to any located barrow. <2>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<1.1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), MOPR (Monograph). SWX8166.

<1.2> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), TOVP (Monograph). SWX8166.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 30-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452722 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 5 2024 11:47AM