Find Spot record MDO521 - Neolithic flint, Broadmayne

SY 72998677. Excavations for a vehicle inspection pit in a garage at 17A Knighton Lane, Broadmayne in June 1980, partly uncovered a flexed
burial within a shallow depression and sealed by a deposit 0.4m thick,beneath sedimental deposits up to 1.6m deep, on gently sloping ground.Cutting through the sedimental layers, was a 'V'-profile ditch runningnorth west-south east, 2.0m wide and 1.0m deep, containing carbonised grain, a group of 3rd-4th century pottery, and a lozenge-shaped roof-tile. The size of the ditch suggests a substantial enclosure; it was at right angles to the slope.

There was no direct dating evidence with the burial, but it is likely that it is of the same period, the Early Bronze Age, as those previously found in Broadmayne (see SY 78 NW 42). The sealing deposit over the burial may be the remaining core of a ploughed-out barrow; it contained flints within the late Neolithic-Bronze Age period. Occupation of the site appears to be from the late Iron Age to the 4thcentury A.D. Possibly a farmstead. Finds are to be deposited in Dorset County Museum. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1982, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1980, 100-101 (Serial). SDO80.

<2> Mepham, L, 1995, Broadmayne Church Archaeological Evaluation of Area Proposed for Graveyard Extension (Unpublished document). SDO12346.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454113 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 4 2024 4:13PM