EDO242 - Former Model Town site, Wimborne Minster; excavation 1991
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SZ 0082 9996 (35m by 38m) |
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Map sheet | SZ09NW |
Civil Parish | Wimborne Minster; Dorset |
Unitary Authority | Dorset |
Technique(s)
Organisation
AC archaeology
Date
1991
Description
A small-scale excavation on a plot of land occupied until the 1980s by the Wimborne Model Town, an area to the north-west of the Minster occupying some of the highest part of the medieval town. A small group of medieval and early post medieval features, including rubbish pits and possible boundary ditches, was recorded. A generally low density of medieval finds suggested to the excavators that the area was not intensively occupied. A single sherd of possible Saxon pottery was recovered from a later pit. Unstratified prehistoric finds - worked flint and a sherd of Bronze Age pottery - were also found on the site.
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SDO91 Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1992. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1991. 113. 183.
- <2> SDO92 Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1993. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1992. 114. 145-50.
- <3> SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 916587.
Record last edited
Oct 30 2020 7:46PM