Monument record MDO43311 - Neolithic pit at East End Ballast Pit, Corfe Mullen

An oval pit exposed during gravel extraction in 1937. The bottom part of the filling of the pit contained many fragments of Neolithic pottery and flint working waste and flint tools of Neolithic date. The tools included knives, a scraper and a fabricator.

An oval pit about 7 feet by 4 feet by some 4 feet deep, described as a Neolithic dug-out hut or pit dwelling, was found in 1937 in the same gravel-pit as that where the Romano-British kiln was exposed. 'In the occupation layer' at the bottom of the pit were numerous fragments of Neolithic 'A' pottery and some 200 flints, mostly cores and flakes but including a few knives, a scraper and a fabricator. <1> <2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1939, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1938, 73 (Serial). SDO17153.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1951, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1950 (Serial). SDO50.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457141 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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