EDO6918 - Wyke Down, Gussage St Michael; excavation 1982-83

A ring-ditch about 18 metres in diameter recorded as a cropmark by Martin Green was excavated by him in 1982 and 1983. It proved to be a hengiform monument consisting of a roughly circular arrangment of 26 closely-spaced pits with an entrance to the south. There was no evidence that the pits held any posts, and finds from the earliest phase of the monument included flint tools and carved chalk objects. A second phase of use was shown by a shallow recut in the top of each pit, and this was associated with Grooved Ware pottery.