Harbour / wetland / lagoon historic information

In Historic Landscape Characterisation generally features as mudflats or similar.

Known archaeology

Harbours and trade, e.g. from Hengistbury Head in the later prehistoric or Hamworthy or Radipole in the Romano-British period. Concentration of industrial activity in particular in prehistoric and Romano-British, and medieval periods. For example, pottery manufacture, salt making, located partly for access to necessary resources but also for ease of transportation. Less true of the Fleet. Erosion and deposition, and re-deposition, of archaeological deposits not understood. There may be some potential for buried land surfaces and/or survival of palaeoenvironmental material.