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The Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth, Dorset, was a mass grave of 54 skeletons, including 51 skulls, of Scandinavian men executed some time between AD 970 and 1025. The men are believed to have been Vikings executed by local Anglo-Saxons .
The burial-goods recovered are similar to those of the Wessex culture, the Wilsford and Dorset Ridgeway series in particular. [26] An urn from one of the barrows likely to have been made between 1700 and 1500 B.C., has been identified as Trevisker ware , a type widely found throughout Devon and Cornwall which was transported east in lesser ...
Woodland in Aunt Mary's Bottom SSSI, Dorset. This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in the county of Dorset, England, United Kingdom.In England the body responsible for designating SSSIs is Natural England, which chooses a site because of its fauna, flora, geological or physiographical features. [1]
The burial chamber is at the southeast end of a rectangular mound. The mound is 24 metres (79 ft) long and orientated northwest to southeast. [2] The mound tapers from 12 to 8 metres (39 to 26 ft) in width from the southeast end to the northwest end, and it is 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) high. [2] The Hell Stone
The Association of Natural Burial Grounds (ANBG) was established by The Natural Death Centre charity in 1994. It aims to help people to establish sites, to provide guidance to natural burial ground operators, to represent its members, and to provide a Code of Conduct for members. The NDC also publishes The Natural Death Handbook. [25]
A visitor centre and car park occupy a hillside at Lulworth Cove, a popular attraction in the Dorset National Landscape. The coast and countryside in the National Landscape area are valued for its recreational amenity value, with the Dorset National Landscape Partnership recognising pressure from a population of 2.15 million people who live within 40 miles of the National Landscape. [1]
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Natural England has its local base at Slepe Farm near Wareham, and from there also administers the Stoborough Heath NNR [5] and the adjacent Hartland Moor NNR. [ 6 ] The RSPB owns and manages a large nature reserve at Arne [ 7 ] and the Dorset Wildlife Trust has two reserves at East Creech and also manages the unique Purbeck Marine Wildlife ...