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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Flagstones Enclosure Alternative Name: Max Gate HouseCountry: England County: Dorset Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Town: Dorchester
Map Ref: SY704899 Landranger Map Number: 194
Latitude: 50.707976N Longitude: 2.420562W
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
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Catrinm visited on 7th Sep 2023 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Two stones thought to be originally part of an avebury- style stone henge are in the garden of Max Gate. This is explained in the house tour.
The part of the enclosure in the grounds of Flagstones House was partially excavated archaeologically, by Wessex Archaeology, and then the grounds were totally removed to make a deep cutting for the bypass at this point. The other half still exists under the grounds of Max Gate, Thomas Hardy's house.
The 100 m diameter enclosure itself contained a variety of human remains in its pits including those of a two or three year old child beneath a sandstone slab and a newborn baby crushed in the terminal of a pit. A young man had been buried in a later Early Bronze Age tumulus in the centre of the site beneath a sarsen megalith. Carbon dating of the remains put the building of the enclosure at around 3486–2886 BC with the central burial dating to around a thousand years later. Neolithic carvings were found carved into the sides of three of the pits.
It may have been connected with other nearby Neolithic sites such as Maumbury Rings and Mount Pleasant henge.
Further reading: Roland J. C. Smith, 1997, Excavations along the Route of the Dorchester Bypass, Dorset Wessex Archaeology Report
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