SDO12552 - Parley Court Farm, Hurn, Dorset: Archaeological Evaluation

'Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Drinkwater Sabey Ltd to carry out an archaeological evaluation on land to the east of Parley Court Farm (SZ 10300 99300), in advance of a proposed landraising project. The evaluation consisted of 21 machine cut trenches, revealing an undated ditch and two gullies, and four peat-filled former watercourses. All these features were recorded in the northern half of the site, the ditch appears to relate to a former drain noted on OS maps as recently as 1976. No finds were recovered during the evaluation, but a column of peat samples were taken from one of the former watercourses, indicating the peat to be relatively modern formation.'