In the summer of 2025, The team from Context One Heritage & Archaeology excavated part of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery relating to a lost minster. Nearly 80 burials were uncovered, from infants to mature adults, interred in a carefully laid out graveyard. Dating from the late 7th to the 10th century, this site offers a rare and intriguing glimpse of early medieval life, death, and belief in Wessex.
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Richard McConnell BA (Hons) MCIfA is Director of Context One Heritage and Archaeology, a Dorset-based archaeological consultancy he has run for nearly 30 years. He has led excavations and community engagement projects across Dorset and the wider South West. Richard sits on the committee of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA’s) Community Archaeology Special Interest Group and is a trustee of the Dorset Archaeology and Heritage Forum.