Monument record MDO4944 - Bronze Age burials at Barton Field, Tarrant Hinton

A multi period site with remains of a possible Bronze Age cemetery, Iron Age and Romano British settlement and a Roman Villa. The Bronze Age remains are of Beaker burials and pits dating to the late 3rd or early 2nd millennium. Five Beaker burials have been excavated which may have been marked by a mound. The site was first excavated in 1845 and extensively excavated between 1968 and 1984 by the Wimborne Archaeological Group. Many of the finds are on display in the Museum of East Dorset, Wimborne.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 210228 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Wimborne Archaeological Society, 1980, Notes on Barton Field, Tarrant Hinton, 1-18 (Article in serial). SDO16749.

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1981, Britannia: a journal of Romano-British and kindred studies 12, 383 (Serial). SDO16747.

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1982, Britannia: a journal of Romano-British and kindred studies 13, 383 (Serial). SDO16748.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 118 (Serial). SDO84.

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Feb 16 2023 10:05AM