EDO532 - Stour Park, Blandford St Mary; Stage 2 evaluation 1993

AC Archaeology conducted the second stage of an evaluation on the western part of the proposed development site at Stour Park, Blandford St Mary during July and August 1993. Five trenches were excavated, all of which lay across the line of earlier Stage 1 evaluation trenches and were given the same numbers (10-14). The work '...revealed further the extent of a medieval settlement. This demonstrated a high level of survival of the archaeological deposits, with evidence of structures along roads or trackways. Pottery suggested a potentially late Saxon date for the origins of the settlement. In the lower, northern part of the site, on the edge of the river flood plain, evidence of late Bronze Age activity was revealed, being a probable ring ditch and at least one cremation burial.' [1]