1 2 The ironstone quarry at Burton Dassett is shown on the first and second edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1886.
3 At Burton Dassett the hills were quarried for ...
The site of ironstone workings and a mineral railway at Burton Dassett Hills. Extraction was for both the stone and the iron ore. Extraction began around 1868 and continued intermittently until the 1920s.
1 Site of a quarry near Northend marked on OS 25″ 1st ed. map.
Same as WA 8917
1 1908. The remains of about 35 skeletons were discovered on the summit of Mount Pleasant by men quarrying for ironstone. According to the manager, the bodies, ...
The site of an Anglo Saxon cemetery, dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period. About 35 individuals were found. Some of them were buried with objects which included various pots and a seax. The cemetery was located on Pleasant Hill, Burton Dassett.
1 The village used to surround the church near the summit of the hill, where there is now only a farm and vicarage. The main village is now ...
The site of the Medieval shrunken village of Burton. The remains of the village survive as earthworks, some of which have been excavated. The site lies to the west of the church at Burton Dassett.