[1] Half of it was excavated in the 1980s when the Dorchester by-pass was built; the rest of it still exists under the grounds of Max Gate, Thomas Hardy's house.

In March 1891 workmen were digging under the lawn at Thomas Hardy's house at Max Gate when they discovered a large sarsen stone three feet (0.9 m) underground.

[1] The enclosure comprised a circular ring of unevenly spaced pits constructed in the late 4th millennium BC.

[5] An adult cremation and two child inhumations were found at the bottom of ditch sections, each beneath a slab of sandstone or sarsen.

[5] A young man had been buried in a later Early Bronze Age tumulus in the centre of the enclosure.