Charles Warne

Charles Warne (1802 – 11 April 1887) was an English antiquarian and archaeologist who specialized in the prehistoric and ancient monuments of Dorset.

This was the first time an antiquity was saved from being damaged by a proposed train route as a result of the actions of local protestors.

Then for a long time he lived at Ewell, Surrey; the last years of his life were spent at Brighton, where he died on 11 April 1887.

[2] During his lifetime Warne amassed a large collection of English and Roman coins part of which was sold by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, on 24 and 25 May 1889, two years after his death.

His grave in Brookwood Cemetery is designed to resemble a prehistoric barrow with the upright stone being made from serpentinite.