SDO15064 - New Plateau Classrooms at Bryanston School, Blandford Forum, Dorset. Results of an Archaeological Watching Brief

Observations and recording by AC archaeology in August 2004 during groundworks associated with the construction of new classrooms on land at Bryanston School. Monitoring was undertaken during the machine-excavation of footings trenches, many of which contained pit and ditch-like features probably dating from the Bronze Age through to the Late Iron Age or Early Romano-British period. Finds recovered comprise mainly pottery, animal bone and worked and burnt flint, suggesting that an area of in situ settlement has been identified close to where previous discoveries of later prehistoric and Roman date have been made.