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A Late Bronze Age Urn-field at Pokesdown, Hants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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In the autumn of 1926 an urn-field (fig. 1) was discovered on the site of the war-time allotment gardens on the southern edge of Little Down Common, and about 500 yards NNE. of Pokesdown Station, lat. 50° 44·5′, long. 1° 49·13′. Its discovery was due to the finding of urns when a new road was driven through a long strip that had been sold for building plots. About nine cinerary urns, mostly of the globular type, were found within a small area by the roadmakers, and these have been preserved by Mr. Homewood, the borough surveyor. Several more were discovered on the adjoining plots when the overlying gravel was cleared away. Unfortunately many of these were destroyed, but two went to the Russell-Coates Art Gallery, one to the Bournemouth Natural Science Institute, and some fragments into private hands (figs. 2, 3, and 4).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1927

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References

page 469 note 1 Dr. Woodhead of Huddersfield has examined the charcoal. All the specimens were of oak.

page 469 note 2 Warne, Celtic Tumuli, p. 51.

page 469 note 3 Hoare, Ancient Wilts., p. 241.

page 469 note 4 Wilts. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag., xliii, p. 313.

page 470 note 1 Ex. Cranborne Chase, iv, p. 148.

page 479 note 1 Wilts. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag., xliii, p. 321, pl. iii, fig. 3.

page 482 note 1 Ex. Cranborne Chase, iv, p. 148.

page 483 note 1 No. P.C. 617, Colchester Museum.

page 484 note 1 Archaeol. Journ., ix, p. 93. See also Wilts. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag., xliii, p. 318.