EDO4923 - Knapp Mill Avenue, Christchurch; evaluation 1992

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Savills, acting for West Hampshire Water Company, to undertake a desk-top study and archaeological evaluation of land at Knapp Mill Avenue, Christchurch, Dorset, during March-April 1992. The evaluation area was located adjacent to the known site of a Bronze Age burial mound and extensive prehistoric flint assemblages of Mesolithic and Neolithic date at Latch Farm, on the gravels of the flood plain of the River Avon. A series of test pits and machine dug trenches produced only a handful of artefacts and no archaeological features. Two machine dug trenches were excavated to supplement the grid of test pits. These measured 50m x 1m. No archaeological features were identified in either trench. This suggests that the Bronze Age urn field was very tightly restricted to the immediate vicinity of the barrow. (1) Site code: W498/35161. Acc. No. 1992.16 Funded by West Hampshire Water Company. Directed by J Gardiner and P Harding