EDO6716 - Swanworth Quarry Extension, Corfe Castle; evaluation 2019

Report presenting the results of an archaeological evaluation comprising surface artefact collection (fieldwalking) and trial trenching, carried out in 2019 by Thames Valley Archaeological Services for Andrew Josephs Associates, on behalf of Suttle Stone Quarries. The work was commissioned in preparation for submission of a planning application to Dorset Council for expansion of Swanworth Quarry into land forming part of Corfe Castle parish. Fieldwalking surveyed some 12 hectares at a surface sample of 10 percent, and produced prehistoric, Roman, medieval and Post-medieval materials. Trial trenching employed 50 linear machine-cut trenches, each nominally 25 metres long and 1.8 metres wide. Of these, only 4 trenches encountered archaeologically significant features, most notably part of a circular ring-ditch, previously identified by geophysical survey and thought to represent the remains of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow.