Find Spot record MDO6714 - Prehistoric pottery from Windsbatch, Upwey, Weymouth

The area to the east of the cross-ridge dyke at Upwey (SY 68 NE 56) has recently been ploughed, producing a widespread distribution of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pottery, which agrees with the usual dating of such dykes; greatest density is on the northern slope. <1>

(SY 658 850. Pottery sited from Auth 1 and OS 1:10000 1980 to Windsbatch Hill) <2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1983, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1983, 144 (Serial). SDO83.

‘LATER BRONZE AGE/EARLY IRON AGE POTTERY FROM WINDSBATCH, UPWEY, WEYMOUTH. The area to the east of the cross-ridge dyke at Upwey, Weymouth (RCHM, Dorset, II, 1970, p. 519, no. 436) was first ploughed in 1961 and sporadically thereafter. Sherds of pottery were found, widely scattered over the area, but with a preponderance along parts of the northern slope. Richard Bradley has kindly examined the pottery and comments ‘that it dates from the earlier 1st millennium bc, i.e., later Bronze Age to earlier Iron Age, and that this date agrees with the usual dating of cross-ridge dykes.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 868674 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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