| Summary: | Vis=4/4/1989 (os) a mound or tumulus was destroyed by quarrying operations at a place called castle close in branscombe parish around 1845. In or near it was a slab of stone c3ft x 2.5ft and 9in thick, covering a cavity containing bones. In 1862 the slab formed the floor of the most southerly of two lime kilns nearby. Hutchinson's plan shows the site of the mound immediately s of "castle close" earthwork, in a position which would place it inside his putative quadrangular enclosure. Recorded by grinsell as branscombe 9 at roughly sy195897 (nmr, citing os). |
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