EDO5671 - Hoare's Pit, Bearwood, Poole; casual observation 1950

In 1950 an excavator-driver uncovered a large urn at a depth of 3 feet where the topsoil met the underlying gravel. The fragments were kept for some time but had been thrown away when Norman Field learnt of the discovery. The driver's description, however, indicated a vessel of about 15 to 18 inches high, ove very thick ware, rusty red in colour and of very gritty paste. It seems there were irregular finger or thumb marks around the upper part of the sides, which had a broad convex profile. A deposit of some 2 inches of charred black and grey bone was found inside. It was evidently a late Bronze Age burial urn.