Abstract
A REMARKABLE example of a bronze age barrow is now in course of excavation at Dudsbury, near Bournemouth. Its method of construction is believed to be unique in the British Isles. Beneath the sand and gravel forming the surface of the heath on which it is situated, it is stated by a correspondent of The Times in the issue of April 26, that Col. C. D. Drew, who is conducting the excavation, has found a mound of turves, three feet thick at the centre. No skeletal remains were found in this mound, which constitutes the primary interment. For this, the acidity of the soil is held responsible, all animal remains being destroyed by its action. A secondary interment took place in the top of this mound, and above it was piled a further six feet of turves with a top dressing of other soil. In the secondary interment was an inverted cinerary urn which had covered the ashes of the incinerated body. It is of Middle Bronze Age type (c. 2,000 1,500 B.C.) and has an ornamentation of three horizontal grooves running around it and finger-nail marks on the rim. It is about 16 inches high and 12 inches in diameter. It will be deposited eventually in the Dorchester Museum.
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Bronze Age Burials near Bournemouth. Nature 135, 836 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135836c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135836c0