Monument record MDO46354 - Burials, 1 Church Hill, Iwerne Minster

Human bones were discovered when a small ornamental fish pond was dug in the garden. The site was investigated by Peter Woodward of the Dorset County Museum, who found a cutting containing the disarticulated skeletons of at least three adults. No clear dating evidence was found, but a medieval date seems most likely.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1995, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1994, 130 (Serial). SDO94.

'Human remains were discovered in the digging of an ornamental fish pond to the south of the bungalow and c. 100 m to the south-west of St Mary’s Church tower. The fish pond was cut to a dept of one metre over an area of some two square metres. At a depth of 0.3m below the present garden level a cutting into a friable broken chalk or Combe rock was recorded. This cutting was infilled with chalky clay silts and its northern edge ran approximately east-west. This contained the disarticulated remains of at least three adults. These occurred in three groups with the long bones laid along the cutting.
Post medieval pottery and glass were recorded above the cutting and a single iron nail from the infill. No medieval pottery was recovered from the site which was at a level of several metres above the present road level of Churchill.'

Record last edited

Jun 13 2023 2:50PM