Monument record MDO522 - Prehistoric burial, 17A Knighton Lane, Broadmayne

A prehistoric burial found during a machine excavation for a vehicle inspection pit within a garage to be constructed at 17A Knighton Lane, Broadmayne. An Early Bronze Age burial possibly overlain by a Barrow . Neolithic to Bronze Age flints were also found.

SY 72998677. Excavations for a vehicle inspection pit in a garage at 17A Knighton Lane, Broadmayne in June 1980, partly uncovered a flexed burial within a shallow depression and sealed by a deposit 0.4m thick,beneath sedimental deposits up to 1.6m deep, on gently sloping ground.Cutting through the sedimental layers, was a 'V'-profile ditch runningnorth west-south east, 2.0m wide and 1.0m deep, containing carbonised grain, a group of 3rd-4th century pottery, and a lozenge-shaped roof-tile. The size of the ditch suggests a substantial enclosure; it was at right angles to the slope. There was no direct dating evidence with the burial, but it is likely that it is of the same period, the Early Bronze Age, as those previously found in Broadmayne (see SY 78 NW 42). The sealing depositover the burial may be the remaining core of a ploughed-out barrow; itcontained flints within the late Neolithic-Bronze Age period. Occupation of the site appears to be from the late Iron Age to the 4th century A.D. Possibly a farmstead. Finds are to be deposited in Dorset County Museum. <1>

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