Monument record MDO18084 - Flagstones Late Iron Age burial of infant in pit 00019

Found during 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.

Pit 00019 was a bell-shaped storage pit which contained a substantial quantity of 1st century BC/AD pottery. A skeleton of a 3-4 year old child was laid supine with the legs flexed in the upper fills. This pit was cut by grave 00041.

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

Wessex Archaeology, 1987, Dorchester By-pass (Excavation archive). SDO9385.

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 (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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May 6 2010 11:18AM