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Pictures of the Neolithic: discoveries from the Flagstones House excavations, Dorchester, Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter J. Woodward
Peter J. Woodward*
Affiliation:
Trust for Wessex Archaeology, Archaeological Centre, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 2EN
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The new Dorchester by-pass is being constructed (scheduled completion in autumn 1988 through a busy landscape of later prehistoric England – and one where fieldworkers have been very active recently, especially at the Maiden Castle hillfort, and in the county town itself. Survey and excavations along the by-pass route were undertaken by the author for the Trust for Wessex Archaeology. The excavation at Flagstones House, directed together with Martin Trott, identified a late Neolithic causewayed enclosure. This note concentrates on the chalk engravings from that site, which lies to the west of Max Gate, the house of Thomas Hardy. It is perhaps apposite that the Wessex novelist built his home so close to the heart of a sacred Wessex site.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 235 , June 1988 , pp. 266 - 274
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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