SDO12255 - Proposed Cattle Yard, Beeches Buildings, Goulds Farm, Milborne St Andrew, Dorset. Archaeological Evaluation

An archaeological evaluation was carried out on land at Beeches Buildings, Goulds Farm, Milborne St Andrew (SY813969), which lies within an area of medieval strip lynchets. A total of seven machine trenches were excavated, revealing that the area had suffered from severe erosion from ploughing. Two trenches contained archaeological features. In Trench 6 were the remains of a very shallow ditch, probably the truncated remnant of an old field boundary. In Trench 7 was shallow irregular linear feature, which has been interpreted as an old hedge line. Neither feature has been dated, but both are thought to be post-medieval. The archaeological potential of the site is considered to be low.