The Badbury Barrow, Dorset, and its Carved Stone

Stuart Piggott

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The Badbury Barrow, Dorset, and its Carved Stone

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Stuart Piggott

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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.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1939 , pp. 291 - 299

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500007848 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1939

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^{page 293 note 1} Proc. Prehist. Soc. iv, 90 ff.

^{page 293 note 2} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlviii, 362 ff.

^{page 293 note 3} Loc. cit. 365.

^{page 294 note 1} Hencken, Arch, of Cornwall and Scilly, pl. vi, 4.

^{page 294 note 2} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlviii, 177.

^{page 294 note 3} Excav. at Hengistbury Head 1911–12 (Soc. Ant. Research Com.), pl. iv.

^{page 294 note 4} Warne, Celtic Tumuli, iii, 57 n.

^{page 295 note 1} At Clynnog, Carnarvonshire, and at Trelyffant, Pembrokeshire. I am indebted to Mr. W. F. Grimes for this information.

^{page 295 note 2} Tsountas, Διμηνίον και Σεσκλoν, 111–12, fig. 24, a and b.

^{page 295 note 3} Persson, The Royal Tombs of Dendra, passim; Nilsson, Homer and Mycenae, 81, fig. 13.

^{page 295 note 4} Celtic Tumuli, i, 37.

^{page 295 note 5} Corpus des signes grave's, pls. 24, 79, 37.

^{page 295 note 6} Ibid., pl. 45.

^{page 295 note 7} Ibid., pl. 123; for the actual axes, cf. Forde in Amer. Anthrop. N.S. xxxii (1932) 87.

^{page 295 note 8} Antiquity, ix, 342.

^{page 296 note 1} Déchelette, Manuel, i, 583 ff. with refs.; Favret in Homenagem à Martin Sarmento (1933), 113–19; Antiquity, ix, 120 (good photo).

^{page 296 note 2} Jacquetta Hawkes, Antiquity, viii, 33—9.

^{page 296 note 3} Reallexikon, iv, 372; Schuchhardt, Alteuropa (1926), pl. xxvi. I am indebted to Dr. Grimm of the Landesanstalt für Volkheitskunde at Halle for further details and photographs.

^{page 296 note 4} IPEK 1926, 52.

^{page 296 note 5} Breuil, Proc. Prehist. Soc. E. Anglia, vii, 292.

^{page 296 note 6} Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot, x, 62.

^{page 296 note 7} Ibid, lxiv, 131–4.

^{page 297 note 1} Mannus, xxix (1937), 427–37Google Scholar. This grave forms one of a localized group of five, which includes that at Göhlitzsch, with ornamented capstones.

^{page 297 note 2} Reallexikon, iii, 225—6, pl. 57—9, with refs.; Antiquity, iii, 115.

^{page 297 note 3} Jacobsthal, Journ. Rom. Studies, xxviii, 65–9.

^{page 297 note 4} Proc. Prehist. Soc. iv, 64—6. Cf. also Otto Uenze, Die frühbronzezeitlichen triangularen Vollgriffdolche (1938).

^{page 298 note 1} Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. xxix, 190–7.

^{page 298 note 2} Cf. Greenwell's remarks in British Barrows, 342 n.

^{page 298 note 3} Although the ‘pick-axe face’ survived in Gaul until Roman times (cf. Kendrick, The Druids, 71).

^{page 298 note 4} The evidence is summarized and commented on by Clark in Proc. Prehist. Soc. ii, 239; iv, 230.

^{page 298 note 5} Personality of Britain, 3rd edn. (1938), 23–6.

^{page 298 note 6} ‘The Megalithic Culture of Northern Europe’, S.M.Y.A.-F.F.T. xxxix, 3, 109.

^{page 298 note 7} Antiquity, xii, 305–6.

^{page 299 note 1} Corpus des signes gravés, pls. 75—8.

^{page 299 note 2} Schwantes, Altschlesien, v, 351 (Seger Festschrift); Sprockhoff, Die nordische Megalithkultur, pl. 66.

^{page 299 note 3} Schwantes, Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins, Bd. i, 266.

^{page 299 note 4} The Simondston Cairn, Proc. Prehist. Soc. iii, 457.

^{page 299 note 5} At Cruguel. Rev. Arch. 3rd S. xvi (1890), 304Google Scholar; Proc. Prehist. Soc. iv, 100.

^{page 299 note 6} Cf. Grimes's remarks and comparative drawings in Proc. Prehist. Soc. iv, 119.

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