Find Spot record MDO5701 - Bronze Age settlement, Uddens, Ferndown Town

A surface scatter of flint tools and flint working debris. Material found includes six scrapers, one bar fabricator, two retouched flakes, 11 discoidal cores and 52 flakes, of Bronze Age date. Some of the flakes show signs of burning, and the finder suggests that this may be the site of a settlement.

SU 0468 0179. The Mesolithic site of Uddens has produced 6 scrapers, 1 bar fabricator, 2 retouched flakes, 11 discoided cores and 52 flakes. Some of the latter show signs of burning. <1>

According to public feedback the artefacts were picked up from the surface of land that was formely heathland. The finds were retained by the finder. <2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 158 (Serial). SDO85.

'… Bronze age site (settlement?) at Uddens in the parish of Hampreston (SU04780179). This site is situated above the 38-metre contour, on an area of former heathland which is now part of a Forestry Commission plantation. This site has produced six scrapers, one bar fabricator, two retouched flakes, 11 discoidal cores and 52 flakes. Some of the flakes show signs of burning.'

<2> PastScape website feedback, 27-AUG-2013 (Verbal communication). SDO19831.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888808 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 11 2023 3:10PM