Susan Greaney, archaeologist from English Heritage is on BBC Radio 3 talking about this and other similar subterranean sites, 10:45 tonight and online now. Listen, and find out much more about this unusual site in the comments on our page. Excavated in 1997 by Martin Green, the Monkton Up Wimborne site in Dorset is unique and comprises a large central pit surrounded by a ring of smaller pits. To one side of this pit is the burial of a Middle Neolithic family: a mother and several children, dating to c.3500 BC. Close to this burial a shaft 7m deep was dug into the chalk.
Published on June 30, 2020 12:45
