Practical Archaeology Training Course 2006, Down Farm, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset - Excavation Report

Wessex Archaeology

This was the third season of research excavation carried out on the site and comprised two small areas which are extensions to the earlier excavations. The excavation was carried out between 4th – 22nd September 2006. The results from the archaeological investigations at Home Field have highlighted the major period of activity being from the Late Bronze Age into the Middle Iron Age (11th - 7th to 5th - 3rd centuries BC). A small quantity of Beaker period (2600 – 1800 BC) and Romano-British (AD 43 – 410) pottery from the previous excavations indicates small-scale activity of these dates in the area, though the nature of the activity is difficult to ascertain.