Monument record MDO19353 - Staggs, Christchurch (site X12); structure S6

Excavations in the tenement strip at the rear of the High Street frontage, Staggs site (X12) Christchurch, during 1976, revealed evidence for a structure [S6] in the NE area of the site. This structure extended only 0.6m from the NE baulk. It consisted of two post trenches [405 & 458] 0.5m deep. Prior to construction the area had been cleared to natural gravel, then covered with loose gravel. Three 13th-14th century body sherds were recovered from [S6]

K. Jarvis directed excavations in the tenement strip at the rear of the High Street frontage, Staggs site (X12) Christchurch, during 1976. The results were subsequently published as a short note in DNHAS monograph 5 (1).

The excavations revealed evidence for a structure [S6] in the NE area of the site. This structure lay immediately beneath the topsoil and extended only 0.6m from the NE baulk. It consisted of two post trenches [405 & 458] 0.5m deep. Prior to construction the area had been cleared to natural gravel, then covered with loose gravel.

The dating evidence for [S6] is three 13th-14th century body sherds and this is confirmed by the relationship with the 15th-16th century [S7] which cuts [S6].

This structure may have been located, along with three other structures [S4, S5, S7], within a medieval plot at the NE end, separated from the rest of the site by ditch [54, 73] during the 13th-14th century.

DCC SMR, to 2003, Former DCC SMR Card Index (Index). SWX8285.

<1> Jarvis, K S, 1983, Excavations in Christchurch 1969-80, 42-49 (Monograph). SWX4028.

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