The Badbury Barrow, Dorset, and its Carved Stone
- 1 July 1939
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Antiquaries Journal
- Vol. 19 (3) , 291-299
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500007848
Abstract
The burial-mound under discussion appears to have been situated some five miles from Wimborne, by the Blandford road and near the hill-fort of Badbury Rings. Nothing remains of it to-day, and our information as to its structure and contents is due to the Rev. J. H. Austen of Ensbury, who in 1845 found the barrow was being ploughed out and was already two-thirds removed when he excavated and described what remained. The remarkable find of a stone with representations of metal axes and daggers upon it, hitherto unillustrated, renders a republication and discussion of the site desirable.Keywords
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