Find Spot record MDO5718 - Bronze Age pottery and worked flint found at Longham, Hampreston

Several worked flints and fragments of pottery found during an archaeological evaluation in advance of quarrying and construction of a reservoir. The finds were not associated with any archaeological features.

A trench (Trench A1) excavated to investigate a linear anomaly located from geophysical survey revealed no discernible linear feature. One of several trial pits dug in the bottom of the trench to investigate the transition to natural geology revealed a fragment of pottery and five worked flints, and six fragments of pottery and four worked flints were found during cleaning of the higher eastern part of the trench. One glazed sherd was thought to be of probable medieval date. The excavators describe the other pottery sherds as small, abraded and formless, but with a fabric which suggested a prehistoric, probably Bronze Age date. Similarly, although the flints did not include any recognisable tool types, they were felt to be compatible with a Bronze Age date.

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Dec 21 2011 5:21AM