Bronze Age Funerary Monuments and Late Roman Enclosures at Downton Manor Farm, Milford on Sea, Hampshire (Paperback)

Archaeological excavation in advance of quarrying revealed features ranging in date from Bronze Age to modern. The most significant results are three round barrows with an associated cremation cemetery, firmly dated to the 15th to 13th centuries BC, with a substantial pottery assemblage and a radiocarbon chronology. Other finds, however, were very few. The other significant phase of site use saw a rectilinear ditched enclosure with associated paddocks, representing a small Roman farmstead which came into being no earlier than the late 3rd century AD and continued into the 4th century before being abandoned. It is possible that the economy of the site was dominated by animal husbandry. This site is unusual in being founded relatively late in the period, when there is more evidence for sites being abandoned than for new foundations.