EDO4925 - Knapp Mill Avenue, Christchurch; desk-based assessment 1992

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Savills, acting for the West Hampshire Water Company, to undertake a desk-top study and archaeological evaluation of land at Knapp Mill Avenue, Christchurch, Dorset, during March-April 1992. The evaluation area was located adjacent to the known site of a Bronze Age burial mound and extensive prehistoric flint assemblages of Mesolithic and Neolithic date at Latch Farm, on the gravels of the flood plain of the River Avon. The desk based assessment was based largely on the doctoral thesis of Julie Gardiner. The field at Knapp Mill Avenue was considered to be of great archaeological importance. The western part of the field produced over 2000 flint artefacts and an important Bronze Age cemetery and, in a wider context, it lay in an area very rich in prehistoric sites and finds. Site evaluation by machine trenching and test pitting was recommended.