SDO14927 - Land adjacent Blandford Road (Sherrings Green Close), Puddletown, Dorset. Archaeological Field Evaluation

‘Terrain Archaeology carried out an archaeological evaluation of a plot of land adjacent to Blandford Road, Puddletown, West Dorset. One trench of total length 26m was excavated, investigating a sample of approximately 4% of the site. The trench revealed a single undated quarry pit and one other possible quarry pit. The chalk bedrock was heavily disturbed with periglacial features. The results of this evaluation have enabled some of the features found in earlier phases of evaluation in 2000 and 2001 to be reinterpreted. Some of the earlier features have been shown to be periglacial in origin and others may represent quarry pits, rather than the curvilinear ditches of a possible prehistoric monument. Overall, the remains within the site have been assessed against nationally recognised criteria as being of negligible-low significance.’