Monument record MDO7519 - Iron Age burials at Bucknowle Farm, Corfe Castle

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 164 (Serial). SDO85.

‘EXCAVATIONS AT BUCKNOWLE FARM 1985
Excavations at Bucknowle Farm in 1985 completed the plan of Building 8, another gable-ended structure on the south side of the yard first located in 1983. In several ways, it clearly resembled Building 5, which lay on the north. Both had very similar overall dimensions (close to 10.5 m by 7 m). Both were backed by central open-ended bays, 3 m wide and 4 to 5 m deep. Both possessed a kind of lean-to addition against one gable-end. While Building 5 had produced evidence of shale working the main signs of activity in Building 8 was the discovery of eight loom-weights lying in one corner. A stamp of the Late Antonine potter Lottius of Lezoux, which was retrieved from the wall foundations of this building, came from the edge of an Iron Age ritual enclosure or cemetery, lying below a path and the partly robbed walling of yet another building, 9. Evidence including a crouched burial flanked by Durotrigian pottery; a deposit in a shallow pit of earlier Iron Age vessels (Eldon’s Seat type); and several other unusual pits, one of which was left to be examined in 1986.’

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