Monument record MDO37243 - Early Iron Age pit (7246) on Southdown Ridge, Weymouth

One of a group of pits in an alignment on the crest of a ridge, and interpreted as forming the northern boundary of an early Iron Age settlement.

Pit 7246 was 1.50m in diameter and 0.53m deep, with vertical sides and a flat base. It had a single fill of dark brown humic silt flecked with charcoal and containing pieces of limestone, some burnt. Pottery (15 sherds) in the fill included fragments of oolitic fabrics and red-finished ware, and a piece of shouldered jar in sandy ware. Fragments of cattle humerus and femur were also found. {1}

<1> Brown, L, Hayden, C and Score, D, 2014, 'Down to Weymouth town by Ridgeway'. Prehistoric, Roman and later sites along the Weymouth Relief Road, 164 (Monograph). SDO14013.

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Mar 31 2024 8:48PM