SDO14083 - B0457: Lambert's Hill to Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset, Water Treatment Works. A Programme of Archaeological Monitoring and Recording

A programme of archaeological works was carried out comprising excavation of test pits and monitoring and recording during ground works relating to the installation of a 5.3km water supply main by Wessex Water. Despite depletion by ploughing of the archaeological resource in a rich prehistoric landscape, the discovery of an isolated pit associated with later Neolithic pottery at Lambert’s Hill was of at least regional significance as part of a sparse distribution pattern. The identification of probable Bronze Age ditches may have indicated that recorded field systems had earlier origins that currently attributed and a large ditch may have formed a boundary along the lower slope of the valley. Degraded pottery from a small pit west of Winterbourne Abbas was also probably Bronze Age. A ring gully marked the probable outline of a roundhouse.