Monument record MWX2922 - Ditch at 1 Farm Cottages, Brownsea Island

The profile of a ditch was recorded during archaeological monitoring of the building of an extension in 1996. No evidence to date the ditch was found.

A shallow ditch observed during building of an extension. Noted in section of footing trench only. Several medieval burials had been recorded nearby in 1974 and 1979. A fragment of skull was found in the filling of the ditch, but it could not be identified further and no dating evidence was found. No evidence for graves was observed. <1>

<1> Cottrell, T, 1996, Archaeological Observations During the Excavation of Footing Trenches for an Extension to No. 1, Farm Cottages, Brownsea Island, Dorset (NGR SZ0286 8762) (Unpublished document). SWX8464.

‘Trench 4 … A linear feature, a shallow ditch, was noted in plan 1.20m from the south end of the trench. The ditch (F14) crossed the trench slightly obliquely NW-SE and was U-shaped in profile, with the south edge being more abrupt than the north edge. It had a maximum width of 0.90m, a maximum depth of 0.40m and was filled with a dark black-brown silty sand with rare chert and flint fragments, context (13). No dating evidence was recovered, and it was not possible to establish from where the ditch had been cut in the depositional sequence. The ditch was not present in Trench 1.’

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May 18 2017 11:05AM