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An Iron Age barrow in the New Forest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

C. M. Piggott
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During the course of excavations undertaken in 1941 on behalf of the Ministry of Works on Beaulieu Heath in the New Forest a small, and hitherto unrecorded, barrow was discovered by the writer (fig. i). After the conclusion of the official work this small barrow was excavated in order to establish its cultural position in an area rich in barrow burials, but which does not, to the writer's knowledge, include many others of similar character. It should, however, be mentioned here that such inconspicuous little mounds are hard to find, and the present example was discovered shortly after a heath fire had burnt off the heather.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 1-2 , April 1953 , pp. 14 - 21
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1953

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References

page 14 note 1 Nat. Grid. Ref. 41/366018.

page 14 note 2 Proc. Prehist. Soc. ix (1943), pp. 1–27Google Scholar.

page 14 note 3 Thanks are due to the following who helped with the excavation: Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop, Miss de Cardi, Mr. R. J. C. Atkinson, and Miss Jocelyn Morris.

page 18 note 1 For the purposes of comparison attention should be drawn to a small barrow of somewhat similar construction excavated during the official work for the Ministry of Works. This was at Stoney Cross, and is described as Stoney Cross III in the report referred to. No finds were made.

page 18 note 2 Arch. Journ. c (1943), pp. 188–223,Google Scholar and especially fig. I, A.3.

page 19 note 1 Dissected into three specimens, A, B, and C, for transport to the British Museum.

page 20 note 1 See Wise, J. R., The New Forest (1883), chap. xvii.Google Scholar For barrows in Hampshire see Grinsell, L. V. in Proc. Hants Field Club and Arch Soc. xiv.Google Scholar The barrow at Oliver's Battery, ibid. xii (1934), 9–10, is not closely comparable.

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page 20 note 4 Ibid. 426, n. 1.

page 20 note 5 As, for instance, in Holland. Giffen, Van, Die Bauart der Einzelgräber (1930)Google Scholar.

page 20 note 6 Proc. Prehist. Soc. xv (1949), p. 105Google Scholar for Bronze Age examples.

page 21 note 1 Paret, O., ‘Das Fürstengrab der Hallstattzeit von Bad Cannstatt’ (Stuttgart, 1935), in Fund-berichte aus Schwaben, N.F. viii, 2–38Google Scholar.

page 21 note 2 , Dvorák, ‘Wagengräber der Älteren Eisenzeit in Böhmen’, Praehistorica, i (Prague, 1938),Google Scholar with bibliography.

page 21 note 3 For a recent summary of the continental evidence, see Childe, in Proc. Prehist. Soc. xvii (1951), 177 ffCrossRefGoogle Scholar.