Monument record MDO6935 - Undated pits Strawberry Field, Knighton Farm, Poole

Four pits found in 1991 during archaeological work in advance of gravel extraction. No evidence to date the pits was found, but they were close to pits dated to the Bronze Age.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1992, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1991, 168 (Serial). SDO91.

‘STOUR VALLEY GRAVELS PROJECT 1991: A further 3.5ha of soils were stripped prior to gravel extraction. This was conducted under the constant archaeological supervision and with the cooperation of the minerals operator Drinkwater Sabey Ltd. Observed subsoil features were Bronze Age, Romano-British and undated. … Two pits (SZ04539742 and 04549742) contained Bronze Age pottery and flintwork. A further four pits were associated by proximity but were otherwise undated.'

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