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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… On the 20th of October, 1789, Mr. Rooke, opened a large Barrow on Shirewood Forest, near Oxton, which measured 159 … reason to suppose, that, this urn was deposited in the Barrow, in a wooden case. Near the urn was a Sword in a … could not be used as ornaments, and when so found, the barrow is generally thought to be the sepulchre of a woman. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Red Hills, the Lexden Earthworks and the Romano-British barrow on Mersea Island. Over two hundred Red Hills, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… St. Michael (10) and Pentridge (23). The mound of Wor Barrow (Sixpenny Handley (29)) was removed by excavation. … Thickthorn Down the U opens away from the Cursus; in long barrow (15) on Gussage Hill it opens towards it. At Wor Barrow the ditch encircled the mound except for a few narrow …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… as far as possible in topographical order from S.W.N.E.; barrow-groups are given names of local derivation. Eight … dipslope. Two-thirds of the barrows and eight of the nine barrow-groups lie in the adjoining parishes of Pimperne, … group in Tarrant Hinton is the only one to include a long barrow. The round barrows are all bowl-barrows, where their …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… listed as mounds range in date and purpose from a barrow of the Bronze Age (Haslingfield (36)) to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Jacobean age which is at all remarkable is the example at Barrow Mill, Cradley, with pierced and shaped balusters and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… in Dorstone parish, which is the chamber and entrance of a barrow, probably a long-barrow, from which the superincumbent earth has been entirely …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… of some interest as it might be a Neolithic earthen long barrow. Apart from a few chance finds and two possible …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… single grave in Badgeworth and from the small cemetery at Barrow Wake, Birdlip (Cowley (1)), where the decorated mirror … Age and in the bank of the enclosure. A possible Iron Age barrow within a square ditch stands near the entrance to … the knoll on the W. side (Plate 68). On the brow is a long barrow (Hawkesbury I, TBGAS, 79 (1961), 80). An Iron Age pot …