| Summary : An area of activity broadly associated with Beaker pottery encountered during excavations on Cranborne Chase in the 1980s. During work at the Down Farm pond barrow (SU 01 SW 83) pits spread over an area of circa 250 square metres were noted, some cut by the barrow and associated with Beaker sherds and Early Bronze Age flintwork. The filling of the pond barrow itself featured a quantity of residual Beaker pottery, while further sherds and undiagnostic flints were found in a buried soil sealing the nearby cursus ditch (Linear 41). Similar material was also encountered at the ring ditch ST 91 SE 106, a short distance to the west. The evidence seems to suggest that the area was used repeatedly, perhaps seasonally, during the Early Bronze Age. |