Monument record MDO18275 - New Cemetery, Poundbury; Ditch 5419

A single V-shaped ditch, aligned N-S was found during a watching brief undertaken by Wessex Archaeology in May 2001, during groundworks associated with the construction of a new cemetery. This ditch contained some worked flint and some daub fragments, but no closely datable finds. This ditch was probably a Bronze Age field boundary ditch, part of the extensive field system found to the west of Dorchester.

A single V-shaped ditch, aligned N-S was found during a watching brief undertaken by Wessex Archaeology in May 2001, during groundworks associated with the construction of a new cemetery.

Ditch 5419 was just over 1m wide and 0.54m deep with a V-shaped profile, with steeply sloping sides and a concave base. It was filled with mid greyish-brown soil. It contained some worked flint and some daub fragments, but no closely datable finds. This ditch was probably a Bronze Age field boundary ditch, part of the extensive field system found to the west of Dorchester.

Dunkley, M, 2001, New Cemetery (Phase 1) Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset. Archaeological Watching Brief (Unpublished document). SDO9521.

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Sep 21 2006 11:39AM