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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pickett Farm Neolithic Site Alternative Name: Pickett's FarmCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.388 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dorset Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Village: South Perrott
Map Ref: ST47100519
Latitude: 50.843803N Longitude: 2.752719W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Neolithic circular ditch in Dorset. The puzzle of Pickett's Farm. A series of finds by metal detectorists of Roman brooches and small-denomination Roman coins in a hilltop field near South Perrott, in Dorset, resulted in Time Team being called in by the landowner. Further encouraged by what, at first sight, had appeared to be fragments of Roman tile and other building material, the Team assembled its best Roman experts in the expectation that they were most likely looking at the site of a Roman temple.
It didn't take the experts long, however, to start pouring cold water on this theory. The tile and other building material turned out not to be Roman after all; the pottery discovered during field walking was all medieval; and although additional Roman coins were uncovered as the trenches went in, there was no sign of any buildings, Roman or otherwise.
But something had been going on in this field. What was it?
Gradually the trenches revealed their contents – and they told a very different story from a very different period. It seemed that the Team had stumbled on a prehistoric burial site dating back into the Neolithic period. Remarkably, it was still being treated as a place worthy of veneration right into Roman times, which explained the presence of the coins and brooches, which had been deliberately buried there in small pits as offerings to the gods of the day.
The experts ultimately thought this was a circular Neolithic ditch feature, possibly used for excarnation.
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