Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc 92

SU 014169. The barrow, Grinsell's Wimborne St Giles 23, lay outside the group of barrows in guardianship and had been plough-damaged. The mound covered a primary burial pit just off-centre containing one of Cunnington's plaques dated 1804. A cremation pit had been cut by the barrow ditch and a further feature was a posthole interpreted as a pyre-support. Lying squarely across the ditch were slots defining a rectangular structure, and within the ditch itself was a small stake-built structure. Finds included fragments of a collared urn of the secondary series, several hundred flint flakes, bone tweezers and a fragment of fern preserved in the primary silt. Appendices treat soil samples and the cremated human remains of two individuals.