Prehistoric Activity and a Romano-British Settlement at Poundbury Farm, Dorchester, Dorset [Hardback]

Philipa Bradley (Author); Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy (Author)

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ISBN: 9781874350569 | Published by: Wessex Archaeology | Series: WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY REPORTS | Year of Publication: 2011 | Language: English 192p, 28 col illus




Prehistoric Activity and a Romano-British Settlement at Poundbury Farm, Dorchester, Dorset

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Excavations at Poundbury Farm and Poundbury Parkway, Dorchester, Dorset recorded a series of pits containing a variety of Neolithic artefacts including one which contained a group of flint axe roughouts and another containing a substantial deposit of grain. Middle and Late Bronze Age field systems, pits and possible roundhouses and a number of cremation burials were identified. A small farmstead and associated field system of the Roman period included ovens/kilns and grain driers and was accompanied by small groups of burials, including Durotrigian burials and another in a stone coffin.

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