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Site name Woodlands 12, Knob's Crook

Site number 1292

Burial codes 1001 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1036 1041 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1127 1130 1143 1152 1153 1181

100bc-AD43 A small barrow covering three pits of which the largest contained fragments of cremated bone, burnt clay, 700 bronze fragments, iron nails, molten glass, an unburnt disc of trepanned bone and 11 sherds of Samian ware, including one from a vessel of the rare Flavian Knorr Form 78. [Grinsell dates this among the earliest Roman barrows in England].

Remains/Period Y1

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 52

Y coordinate 73

Bibliographic source Fowler 1959, Whimster 1981, Grinsell 1982a

Query

Site name	Woodlands 12, Knob's Crook
Site number	1292
Burial codes	1001 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1036 1041 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1127 1130 1143 1152 1153 1181
100bc-AD43	A small barrow covering three pits of which the largest contained fragments of cremated bone, burnt clay, 700 bronze fragments, iron nails, molten glass, an unburnt disc of trepanned bone and 11 sherds of Samian ware, including one from a vessel of the rare Flavian Knorr Form 78. [Grinsell dates this among the earliest Roman barrows in England].
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	52
Y coordinate	73
Bibliographic source	Fowler 1959, Whimster 1981, Grinsell 1982a