Monument record MWX2860 - Possible Late Bronze Age field system, Bearwood Junior School, Wheelers Lane, Poole

A number of ditches of probable Late Bronze Age date were observed during archaeological watching briefs by Wessex Archaeology in 1994. These ditches appear to form part of a field system, other previous parts of which had been dated to the Iron Age and Roman periods.

A watching brief undertaken by Wessex Archaeology during groundworks to form a new playing field at Bearwood Primary School in 1994 revealed traces of a number of linear ditches. The monitoring conditions did not allow all to be investigated and properly identified. Three ditches were recorded in detail. All were aligned in a NNW-SSE or WSW-ENE orientation. They remained as shallow features with a rounded U-shaped profile, filled with sandy loam. A small quantity of probable Late Bronze Age pottery was recovered from one of these ditches. (1) These ditches occur within an area previously identified as part of an Iron Age/Roman field system, suggesting that this field system contains elements of more than one date. (2) A further possible part of this field system was recorded during a subsequent watching brief by Wessex Archaeology during the construction of an extension to the school. Two short lengths of ditch, one in a similar orientation to those discovered earlier, containing worked or burnt flint were suggested as being prehistoric in date. (3)

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