HISTORY OF PURSE CAUNDLE - RESUMPTION

I am pleased to announce that uploading to my updated and revised HISTORY OF PURSE CAUNDLE has now commenced on my other dedicated Purse Caundle blog.
It will be in a different format, and therefore more easy to read. There will also be many more illustrations, though due to copyright considerations not as many as I would like. The new format will also make it easier for me in the future to correct any errors, to amend a post, and add further information.
As new postings are uploaded, the older ones they replace will accordingly be deleted.
I would welcome comments, and hopefully any additional information.

AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSED OPPORTUNITY?

In a recent interview with a Purse Caundle farmer, he said that in the 1980s a skeleton had been found on his farm. The Police were called in, as well as a local doctor. Apparently the latter's opinion was that it could be Saxon. When the Dorset County Museum was said to have been contacted, the purported response was that as there had been many other such skeletons found round about, to re-bury it, and concrete over - which was accordingly done.
Some twenty years later I have contacted the three archaeological bodies in the area, and none have any record of this incident. It is considered that an opportunity had been missed, especially as there has not been any practical archaeological research in the village. So far only Jurassic fossils have been dug up in village gardens, and the crocodile fossilised remains accidentally found in 1971.