Monument record MDO4113 - late Neolithic / Bronze Age occupation, Everley Water Meadow, Iwerne Stepleton

Location occupied since the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Excavation in 1982-1983 revealed a deposit of occupation material of Late Bronze Age date. The main feature of the site was a burnt deposit with calcined flint, interpreted as a burnt mound. The remains of a bucket-shaped pot, fragments of red deer antler and a piece of carved shale were found at the centre of the mound. The excavator interpreted this as a riverside occupation site, damaged by later erosion and field boundaries.

ST 861 115: Excavation at the Everley water meadow in 1983 produced evidence of almost continuous occupation since the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. A Late Bronze Age boiling mound was located within the area excavated. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 110-111 (Serial). SDO84.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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