Monument record MDO4733 - Medieval or post-medieval building, Spetisbury

A chalk-filled trench recorded during observation of work on the Sturminster Marshall to Blandford St Mary Main in 1991. The trench formed three sides of what may have been a structure and its filling contained post-medieval building material. The archaeologists on site felt that this feature could perhaps be the remains of a medieval or post-medieval building.

<1> Hearne, C M, 1991, Sturminster Marshall to Blandford St Mary Main. Archaeological Watching Brief, Plot 16 Structure 62 (Unpublished document). SDO205.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1992, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1991, 168-169 (Serial). SDO91.

‘OBSERVATIONS ON A PIPELINE: STURMINSTER MARSHALL TO BLANDFORD ST MARY
… The main focus of medieval/post-medieval activity was in the area of the Benedictine priory cell. A rectangular structure, 4.80 x 5.0 m (minimum), c. 30 m north of the priory cell wall survived as a continuous chalk-filled foundation trench 0.80-1.0 m wide, 100-150 mm deep, forming three sides of the structure (ST 9120 0234). It contained mostly post-medieval rubble with a single 12th/13th century sherd from the subsoil layer below. A series of pits and postholes nearby may have been associated. It seems likely that this structure was associated with the priory cell though it cannot be closely dated.’

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