Monument record MDO8557 - Bronze Age cremation found at The Slope, Headswell Crescent, Bournemouth

Middle Bronze Age Urn found 1934, Calkin Collection, British Museum. <2>

Urn 14" high, with overhanging rim. Found in June 1934, when a drain was being laid in front of the garage of 'The Slope' Headswell Crescent, Redhill, Bournemouth. The urn was inverted over a cremation, its base being about 2'9" above the original ground level. No trace was seen of a tumulus ditch. The ground surface was quite flat. <3>

Site of find now in private gardens. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1940 (Map). SWX1197.

(SZ 08559587) Middle Bronze Age Urn found AD 1934

<1.1> Calkin, J B, 1935, Transactions of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 1935, 30 (Article in serial). SWX4373.

<2> Calkin, J B, Annotated Record Map Corr 6, 1949 (Map). SWX8214.

<3> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 06-NOV-1951 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<3.1> Calkin, J B, Oral: J B Calkin (Verbal communication). SWX4309.

<4> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F2 FDC 19-NOV-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457755 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 27 2023 1:57PM