Monument record MDO23264 - Ditch, land to the rear of 5 King Street, Wimborne Minster

A large feature of uncertain shape, interpreted by the excavators as being the end of a large ditch of probable early medieval date. Its filling consisted of silt, a thick layer of cess, and quantities of domestic rubbish.

A large depression which excavators suggested might be the butt end of a large ditch. The precise location and orientation of this feature within the garden is not clear from the published note. It was at least five metres wide, and of uncertain date, though initial results of pottery analysis suggested that it was an early post-Conquest construction. Its filling consisted of an initial layer of silt, with a deep layer of cess on top, and the feature was subsequently filled with domestic rubbish, the latter (it appears) being partly sealed by a stone wall of probable late medieval date that had collapsed or been dismantled in the sixteenth century. The excavators suggested that this might be part of a structure removed to make way for the present building. Considerable quantities of post-medieval pottery were found, including fine wares of German and Flemish origin; presumably this material was from the upper layers of the filling of the probable ditch reported as containing domestic rubbish, but this is not entirely clear from the note. (1)

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