Monument record MDO18070 - Burial within the Neolithic enclosure at Flagstones, Dorchester

Found within the probably circular enclosure partly revealed by excavation at Flagstones by Wessex Archaeology in 1987-1988 in advance of the construction of the Dorchester By-pass. The following description is abstracted from the final published report on the site (1). The numbers in square brackets refer to context numbers quoted in the report.

This burial is one of three primary burials were placed on the base of segments 16, 19, and 30 of the enclosure ditch. In segment 16, on the western side of the enclosure, were found the cremated remains of an adult heaped on the base of the ditch with a large sarsen slab placed 200mm above it in the ditch fills.

National Monuments Record, NMR Monument Record, SY 78 NW 67 (Index). SDO9937.

Woodward, P J and Smith, R J C, 1987, Survey and excavation along the route of the Southern Dorchester By-pass, 1986-1987 – an interim note, 79-89 (Article in serial). SDO9381.

<1> Smith, R J C et al, 1997, Excavations along the Route of the Dorchester By-pass, Dorset, 1986-8, 27-48 (Monograph). SDO9379.

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