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This section lists occupation-sites in Purbeck stone quarry areas,
which are likely to be relevant to any attempt to reconstruct the industrial
landscape of Roman times.
The order and subdivisions are the same as in
the Quarries section.
On (or near) the Purbeck monocline (E to W order)-
- name Ballard Down burials
- cat RB Occupation ?
- site Ballard Down, Upper Chalk about 100yd from cliffs, 1917
- grid SZ 0397 8123
- source Dorset SMR
- publ RCHM Dorset SE pt.3 p.611
- publ 1917-18, Proc Soc Antiq 30 236-7
- desc Inhumation burials, including a cist of PL slabs, and another
plain grave
- date unknown, could be Roman
-
- name Durlston Cliff burials
- cat RB Occupation ?
- site Swanage, Belle Vue Rd, `The View', now `Durlston Cliff', 1904
- grid SZ 0343 7813
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Hardy WM 1908 p.11-12
- publ Calkin JB 1968 p. 27-28
- publ Swanage Times 1953-10-07
- publ RCHM 1970 Dorset SE pt.3 p.612
- desc 8 skeletons, 4 extended with feet E in plain graves, 4 in covered stone
cists, one cist containing 2 bodies in bent attitude with feet S. 2 coarse-
ware sherds, one with handle
- subst site on Middle Purbeck
- date unknown
-
- name Brownsea Island
- cat RB Occupation
- site Brownsea Island, east end, 1973
- grid SZ 0318 8817
- source source of first information
- publ Jarvis 1992
- desc Discovered by AT Bromby (National Trust warden) 1973
- desc From author's abstract:
3rd/early 4th cent. sandy layer sealing an undated ditch containing
50mm of acid valley bog peat. Pottery assemblage, which contained a high
proportion of containers, suggested a nearby settlement, Timber survived
in the waterlogged conditions and included furniture fragments. The level
of the site at -1.01m OD is compared with modern Highest Astronomical Tide
(HAT) of +1.66m and a rise in relative sea level is suggested.
- loc Finds in Poole Museums, site PM 57.
- date AD 200-350AD approx
- interp From author's section on sea-level implications:
Site situated near a marshy
bay, now silted up, but probably the main settlement focus in mediaeval and
earlier times. Although near harbour entrance, not exposed to gales in
Poole Bay. Base of sandy layer at -1.01m; MHWS is +0.6m.
Site not (JP's emph.) not considered to be a settlement
in situ. If it is such a settlement, implied sea-level rise
since 3rd-4th cent. is 3.07m, if however the site represents a rubbish-dump
near the Roman HAT, 2.67m. For reasoning see
Waddelove and Waddelove 1990;
summary of their findings here.
- comment Consider implications of a lower sea-level in Roman times for
the shipping of stone
-
-
- name Bon Accord Road occupation site
- cat RB Occupation
- site Swanage, Durlston Court school playing field, c.1904
- grid SZ 0290 7810
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Hardy WM 1908 p.11-13
- publ RCHM 1970 Dorset SE pt.3 p.612
- desc Occupation débris; sherds identified as RB, flints, and coins,
one certainly Roman, with indications of hearths
- subst Site on Middle Purbeck
- date probably Roman
-
- name Atlantic Road RB burial
- cat RB Occupation
- site Atlantic Road, Swanage, 1953
- grid SZ 0280 7835
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Calkin JB 1954
- publ Calkin JB 1968 p. 26-27
- publ Farrar RAH 1954 p.76-77
- desc Roman grave consisting of two dry-stone walls 6'4" long 1'6" high.
Overlain by two large slabs of `blue rag', one of the hardest beds in
the local limestone. Cist 2'4" wide inside,
floor 4' from surface, no built-up ends. Remains in extended position with
head SE. Man about 50 with abnormally thick skull. Nails from wooden coffin.
Brooch of middle 2nd century AD.
- loc Human remains and nails transferred from Red House Mus. Christchurch
to DCM, acc.2001.128
- subst Site on Upper Purbeck
-
- name Swanage Rectory burials
- cat RB occupation ?
- site The Rectory, Kings Rd West, Swanage
- grid SZ 0275 7877
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Farrar 1965 p.112-3
- desc PA Brown reports 10-12 inhumation burials discovered during building,
undated. Site now built over, burials destroyed
- loc ? DCM, acc.2001.41 or 2001.42 (DNHAS Ann.Rep.2001)
- date unknown
-
-
- name Herston RB ditch
- cat RB Occupation
- site Herston, near Bell Street, 1996
- grid SZ 017 786
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Hutcheson A 1996
- desc Romano-British ditch (among other finds of other dates)
- subst on Middle Purbeck
- date Roman
-
- name Windmill Knap occupation site
- cat RB Occupation
- site Windmill Knap, Knitson Farm, before 1963 and in 1969
- grid SZ 0092 8005
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Farrar 1963 p.105
- publ Brown PA 1969
- desc RB sherds, in field on Wealden Beds below Windmill Barn,
found by PA Brown before 1963
- desc Gas pipe trench finds 1969: at SZ 0095 8005, a section of wall;
at SZ 0086 8009, much block-stone débris.
Fragments of a shale panel or tray,
sherds of RB black ware,
part of a lower quernstone
of sandstone,
large limestone block
with straight-sided hole 6" by 3" by 2" deep,
two smaller blocks with holes.
Subsoil in area yellow sand, but at the
`habitation sites' (JP's quotes) clay at 2.5" below surface.
- loc 1969 finds left in possession of Mark Helfer of Knitson Farm
-
- name Leeson House hoard
- cat RB Occupation
- site Leeson House, c.1842
- grid SZ 004 786
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Hutchins ed.3 p.560
- desc Roman coins in a vessel,
found while building an extension to the house.
SMR: Site in a field occasionally ploughed, but often pasture
- interp possible Roman settlement near to the PM outcrop
(but on Middle Purbeck strata)
-
- name Putlake Farm occupation site
- cat RB Occupation
- site Putlake Farm, Langton Matravers, 1957
- grid SZ 0019 7837
- source Dorset SMR
- publ RCHM 1970 Dorset pt.3 p.602
- publ Calkin JB 1959b p.122-123
- desc Inhumation burials and occupation débris S of the farmhouse
above the 300ft contour (on Middle Purbeck strata)
- desc 3 graves, one with pottery mugs, dated 2nd cent. by K Kenyon by
comparison to similar pottery in Herts; one with frags of a Durotrigian Type 1
bowl, IA to early Roman
- date IA to 2nd cent. (from pottery)
- interp Roman occupation fairly close to the PM outcrop
- comment 400m SW of the Leeson House hoard
-
-
- name Spyway Barn occupation site
- cat RB Occupation
- site W of Spyway Barn, S of Priest's Way, Langton Matravers, 1975
- grid SY 9949 7764
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Farrar 1963 p.105
- publ Farrar 1975 p.67
- desc RB occupation site reported by PA Brown 1975 near Dancing Ledge.
Small area of black soil astride a trackway leading ... to a quarry,
a flint scraper and a quantity of pottery incl. samian and `relatively early'
BB ware. Also R Newman c.1963 reported two sherds 350yd further south,
nearer to Dancing Ledge, so the site may be extensive
- desc SMR: site visited 1994, several Iron Age potsherds and a flint core
found at SY 9951 7951
- loc ? DCM acc.2001.41 (DNHAS Ann.Rep.2001 p.12)
-
- name Eastington Farm mosaic (doubtful)
- cat RB Occupation ?
- site W of Eastington Farm, Worth Matravers
- grid SY 980 779
- source Dorset SMR
- desc
T Haysom reports that a mosaic was found 1930s-1950s, but site was
dug 1993 and no occupation found
- comment may be same as the ill-described
Worth Matravers pavement
-
- name Compact Farm
- cat RB Occupation
- site Compact Farm, Worth Matravers, ploughed field near farm, 1953 on
- grid SY 9742 7782
- source Dorset SMR
- publ RCHM Dorset SE pt.3 p.621
- publ Calkin JB 1953 p.54, 59, 69
- publ Calkin JB 1954 p.77
- publ Farrar 1954 p.77
- publ Farrar 1960 p.86
- publ Farrar 1964b p.118
- publ Hinton DA, Peacock DPS 1991
- publ - Hinton DA 1993
- publ Graham, Hinton and Peacock 2002
- desc RCHM: Occupation débris Iron Age A to late Roman with shale armlet
working waste ... a bronze signet ring
and sherds of at least C2 to C4 AD
- desc Farrar 1954: unstratified samian and New Forest ware, coin of
Victorinus (AD 268-270)
- desc Farrar 1964: site extends 100yd N. One scrap of samian and one
C4 red colour-coated ware, other RB sherds
- desc Hinton 1991: stone-lined structure discovered 1989 when a tractor fell
into is a grain-drier; samples taken indicate it was used for roasting
germinated grain. Drier within a building paved unevenly and incompletely
with limestone slabs. Drystone walling in N and S walls,
stone slab threshold
and bases for jambs, with slots, in latter. BB pottery.
Prob. occupation
from IA to late Roman. Site mainly agricultural. N wall has 2 stones that
could be rough-outs for mortars or querns, broken. A C1/early C2 Spanish
amphora sherd. Some samian, New Forest, and Oxfordshire ware. Early
Roman brown-glazed sherd.
- loc Some objects in DCM and Christchurch Mus
- subst site on Middle to Lower Purbeck
- comment see also mortars of
PL and
Burr, and
roofing of
PM and
PL,
from this site, and
Dunning's Worth mortar
-
-
- name Afflington Barn
- cat RB Occupation
- site Afflington Barn, Corfe Castle, Dorset
- grid SY 9680 7898
- source DNHAS Annual Report 2001 p.13
- desc RB pottery from above site
- loc Given by Mrs JR Smale to DCM, acc.2001.54
-
-
- name St Aldhelms Head RB occupation
- cat RB Occupation
- site Bronze Age barrow, 1850
- grid SY 9633 7597
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Hutchins 1861 vol.1 p.704-5
- publ RCHM 1970 Dorset SE pt.3 p.474
- publ Farrar 1956 p.76-77
- desc A 2' layer of stones found covering a BA barrow, finds within this layer
included a samian sherd, other RB sherds, KS frags and 5 coins from Trajan
to Tetricus. Part excav. by Austen 1850
- desc The Farrar ref. probably relates to same place: RB finds E of modern
quarry, PA Brown recovered RB sherds, samian frags, etc., antoninianus
253-268AD; no PL recorded
- subst site on Lower Purbeck or Portland Stone
- date Roman, including C3
- comment May be the source of Square
and Compass roofing slabs
-
- name Corfe Castle Town's End
- cat RB Occupation
- site Corfe Castle, house site at edge of Corfe Common, 1964 and since
- grid SY 9630 8117
- source Nick King, pers. comm. 2004-11
- publ Farrar 1964b p.117
- desc 1964: late IA or RB ware, and later RB sherds
- desc 2004: excavations around the house have yielded
much Black Burnished ware;
a shale armlet core;
lead RB pot mend and other RB leadware yet to be identified;
a piece of daub showing impressions of the timber or wattle;
a copper ring similar to one identified by Ralph Jackson, of the
British Museum, and dated by him as being Roman;
several unworked pieces of iron-stained small-gastropod limestone,
identified by
Trev Haysom as from the
Bradle area;
limestone from other known RB quarry sites;
worked Purbeck marble (cuboids of around 5in and flat 2in--3in thick
Purbeck stones were found on the site in the early/mid 1960s. These were
evaluated by J. Bernard Calkin who considered them to be flooring, but,
no note was made of the date);
etc.;
all amounting to good evidence for Iron Age / Romano-British
occupation and maybe stoneworking. Site on Wealden Formation.
- cont Nick King
-
-
- name Pier Bottom, Worth Matravers
- cat RB Occupation ?
- site Pier Bottom between Emmetts Hill and St Aldhelm's Head
- grid SY 959 979
- source Dorset SMR
- desc Field system, IA to Roman, on Portland Sand and Portland Stone
-
- name Norden industrial site
- cat RB Occupation
- site Norden, Corfe Castle, 1969
- grid SY 957 827
- publ Sunter NJ 1969
- publ Sunter NJ 1987
- publ Cox and Hearne 1991 p.80
- desc Roman industrial site, working stone, shale, etc.
- desc Cox and Hearne p.80: magnetometer survey detected a roadway on
the same line as that found by Sunter 1987 and also in line with
the straight boundary SY 9380 8374 - SY 9438 8342 which is also noted
by Field NH 1992
- loc DCM
- subst PL, PM
- comment see also Unclassified section
- comment includes Roman road, see
Bare Cross; note that
the oil terminal at Furzebrook antedates Cox and Hearne's excavations
and surveys and so any Roman road across that site (see
Bare Cross)
may have been destroyed without recording.
- comment see also
Norden PM mortars, etc.
-
-
- name Stanwei
- cat RB Occupation ?
- site Provenance, where found; date of finding where known
- grid SY 952 816 approx.
- source Field 1992 p.83
- publ Grundy 1935 2nd Corfe charter
- publ Hinton 1994 charter 573
- desc Boundary of a Saxon charter appears to describe the western boundary
of Corfe Castle parish: the stanwei or stone road (?Roman) is
put at approximately the grid-ref. above by Hinton, but Field (following
Grundy, how accurately?) puts it close to SY 943 834, on possible line
of Roman road from Norden towards Wareham
-
-
- name Bucknowle villa
- cat RB Occupation
- site Bucknowle Farm, Corfe Castle, 1975-88
- grid SY 9545 8154
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Light and Ellis 2009
- publ Farrar RAH 1976 p.66-7
- publ Keen L 1977 p.54
- publ Keen L 1978 p.120
- publ Keen L 1979 p.112
- publ Keen L 1980 p.133
- publ Collins and Field 1981
- publ Woodward 1981 p.102
- publ Field 1982
- publ Collins, Field and Light 1983
- publ Collins, Field and Light 1984
- publ Frere, Hassall and Tomlin 1984 p.320-1
- publ Collins, Field and Light 1985
- publ Collins, Field and Light 1986
- publ Collins, Field and Light 1987
- publ Field, Light and Collins 1986
- publ Collins, Field and Light 1988
- publ Collins, Field and Light 1989
- desc PL finds:
six mortaria,
roofing slab,
tesselated paving,
column base(s),
trough or channel,
square post-sockets and doorways,
subcircular door-sockets,
a quern in Purbeck Burr,
limestone loom weights,
polished PM fragments.
- desc Found by PA Brown 1975 (Farrar 1975b).
First known Roman pavement
S of the Purbeck chalk ridge (Keen 1976).
Occupation from middle Iron Age to late Roman.
L-shaped Roman building of late C3 date with later alterations.
Evidence of shaleworking over AD 270-350 at least (Collins 1980).
Several door
thresholds in PL with sockets for doorposts
(Keen 1977,8,9, Collins 1980), cf.
Compact Farm.
`On main route for shale, passing through
the Purbeck hills at Corfe Castle'.
Bath suite incl. tepid, hot, cold and plunge;
later, larger plunge some 6m long.
Soil samples include Cannabis sativa,
grape, apple, plum, blackberry and elderberry.
New Forest and Oxford wares.
Verandah linking to a group of buildings to S incl. a ?barn.
Column base in PL,
of a type recorded at Colliton Park.
In later period 2 separate residences, the later one with superior facilities;
similar groupings at
Woodhouse Hill,
Halstock, Tarrant Hinton.
Farm buildings and paved yard to W of main villa.
Boundary ditch to SW and W originally of late pre-Roman date.
Other probable IA ditches filled with peat.
Indications of a metalled track leading from paved yard to SE.
7 seats of KS intended for 3-leg stools.
Whole vessels in coarseware, samian in cut-glass technique,
and a glass 0.3m high with banded fluting.
Loom weights in Bldg 8 wh. was dated by samian to early C2.
Iron Age ritual enclosure or cemetery.
Stone lined tanks perhaps for fulling or tanning.
Agricultural buildings abandoned early C4
when courtyard villa was built.
IA levels show two periods, earlier one C5-C3 from pottery.
14 child burials.
2 IA huts 7m diam., ?industrial, but pre-`Durotrigian'.
- loc One PL threshold in Wareham public library (in the garden);
glass in DCM
- date C5 BC to C4 AD (coin evidence for the Roman period)
- comment Probably close to Roman roads used for moving PL; if the direction
of access to the villa were determined, it might help to indicate which
side of the villa the Roman road ran
- comment see also Mrs Panton's
?PL column from Church Knowle
-
-
- name Eldon Seat occupation site
- cat RB Occupation
- site Encombe estate nr. Eldon Seat, 1963
- grid SY 940 780 approx
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Cunliffe 1963b
- publ Cunliffe 1964b
- desc Iron Age and RB site
-
- name West Orchard Farm
- cat RB Occupation
- site Newfoundland Copse, 200yd SE of, both sides of field wall, 1953 on
- grid SY 9365 7926 (so SMR; Toms gives SY 9368 7925)
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Calkin 1953 p.69
- publ Farrar 1955b p.126-7
- publ Farrar 1963 p.102
- publ Toms GSG 1967
- publ Toms GSG 1969
- desc SMR: Rough floor of limestone blocks, overlying Iron Age A deposit;
shale armlet waste (hand-cut), IA A pottery, IA C to early Roman sherds,
C2 enamelled brooch. Excav to S of field wall in 1967 showed pits
and traces of flooring, [prob. pre-Roman]. Worked shale visible on
surface after ploughing in 1985
- desc Toms: two burials, one associated with two 4th century coins
- loc Human bones in DCM, acc. 2003.71
- subst site on Portland to lower Purbeck
- date SMR: IA to early Roman; Toms: burials in 4th century
-
- name Creech Roman Building
- cat RB Occupation
- site Norden Wood, E of East Creech, 1869-1885
- grid SY 935 826 approx
- source RCHM 1970
- publ Tennent 1963 p.6
- publ Calkin JB 1968 p. 32, 55
- desc Calkin: stone column found by ploughman 1869. 4ft high, 5in thick,
with moulded base and capital. In possession of Laurence Pike of Wareham
(this is an error for Parkstone: JP)
in 1872. Photographs of the mosaic by Mr Usher of Furzebrook ?1888
are in DCM.
- desc Tennent: tesserae discovered by ploughman. Pavement of at least
70 squares of coarse tesserae. Doric column 4ft high, taken by Mr Pyke,
owner of clay works, to `Leymoor' his garden in Parkstone, lost when the
site was divided for redevelopment. OS 6" map of 1888 gives 1885
as date of discovery; Tennent says 1888, an easy mistake.
- loc Unknown. Wareham Museum has some pieces of tegula
from `a villa at Furzebrook', presumably this site.
- loc
Dorset County Museum photographic collection, box 129, slide 97,
shows a drawing of a section of plain tesselated floor from East Creech villa
(black and white, as drawn). Many of these slides belonged to JB Calkin.
This is clearly one of Mr Usher's photographs mentioned above.
- comment
Mrs Panton's Column
is clearly the same as the one mentioned here.
-
- name Redcliff pottery production site
- site Redcliff, Purbeck, 1952-83
- grid SY 934 866 approx
- source Lyne M 2002 p.75
- publ Farrar 1973c
- publ Allen and Fulford 1996
- desc The `Redcliff motif' is a distinctive pattern used inside bases of
certain pots, apparently only those made at Redcliff. First described
by Farrar. Its distribution suggests these trade routes:
by sea and/or road to Exeter and London,
also overland to Severn and thence north to Hadrian's Wall.
- desc The Allen and Fulford paper
is a fairly sophisticated statistical analysis
of the geographical distribution of South-east Dorset BB1 ware, which shows
distribution broadly on these radii from the production area: SW to Exeter;
NW to Somerset and S Wales; NE towards Gloucester; ENE towards London.
Together with the observation that BB1 prevalence falls off from west to
east on Hadrian's Wall (while BB2 prevalence falls from east to west),
this is taken to show that BB1 was sent from Dorset to the Wall by the
western sea route, using a port at or near Crandon Bridge, Som.
- interp Radial distribution of pottery is taken to indicate directions of
distribution by land. It seems likely (and Allen and Fulford suggest it)
that stone and other products (e.g. salt)
may have been distributed by these routes also.
I remark: Pottery was
produced in large quantities compared to ornamental stone (such as PM), and
used by many more people; it is reasonable to suppose that PM could
be distributed for a long time along a particular route with little loss
in transit (`by the roadside').
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- name Bare Cross
- cat RB Occupation ?
- site Pass over Purbeck Hills, Church Knowle
- grid SY 9308 8210
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Austen JH 1860 p.232-3
- publ RCHM 1970 Dorset SE pt.3 p.596
- publ Field NH 1992 p.81-82, 151-153,
app.27, 34
- publ Sparrow 1768 map
- publ Anon. 1843 tithe map
- publ Dawson 1856 map
- publ Boundary Commission 1832
map
- publ Good R 1966 p.138-9
- publ Good R 1969
- publ Wareham Guide Committee 1900
p.26 and inside front cover
- publ Legg R 1972 p.55-6
- publ Legg R 1987 p.121-4
- publ Legg R 1989 p.55-6
- publ Hyland P 1978
- publ Taylor I 1765
- publ Wessex Archaeology 1988
- publ Palmer 2007
- desc RCHM: Inhumation burials, chalk-cut graves, head to W.
6 bodies examined by J Thurnam, he says all female or adolescent.
Regular disposition and presumed (JP's emph.)
extended position argue Roman date. Found 1859.
- desc JP:
This is a pass over the Purbeck hills used by a present-day road.
An engineered incline, currently a bridlepath, descends in a NE direction
from the summit. This incline has existed at least since 1768 (see
maps cited above). There were Roman burials on the site (RCHM, above).
There was Roman occupation close by
(the Creech Roman building).
The straight route from Wareham via Stoborough and Furzebrook
to the foot of the Chalk ridge may be Roman,
as proposed by Field 1992.
Field believes the Roman route continued, via the engineered incline,
to Flower's Barrow at the west end of the ridge,
but I suspect the engineering is of more recent date (though before 1768)
and its form indicates that it was made to assist with crossing the ridge,
not access to the ridgeway.
It is pre-turnpike, but may have been built using parish funds or maybe
legacy money
(see White 1853b, letter 5, p. 213).
The incline has been confused (Legg 1972, Hyland 1978, but not Legg 1987
or 1989)
with a tramway which was more to the east of here and transported chalk
to Ridge near Wareham in 1875-1900 (Wareham Guide Committee 1900, Legg
and Hyland opp. cit.). For a fuller account see
this article by JP.
- comment Bare Cross spelled Bear Cross on 1856 map,
Bere Cross on 1888 map, and called White Crossways on 1768 map
- comment JP photographs 2002-09:11.1-13,19-21, 2003-06:12.10-11
- comment DCM has aerial photos of 1946 which however show no useful
detail of Bare Cross
- comment Probable branch road to Norden and Corfe;
see road at Norden found
on industrial site and Field op. cit.
-
- name Bradle farm burials
- cat RB Occupation ?
- site Bradle Farm House, 0.5km S of, c.1876 and 1888
- grid SY 9295 8020
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Dorset County Chronicle 1888-05-17
- publ - 1890, Notes and Queries for Som. and Dorset 1 147
- publ RCHM 1970 Dorset SE pt 3 p.596
- desc At least 2 inhumations. Covered cist of stone slabs 3.4m by 0.4m
found 0.3m below surface; central adult skeleton with head E and hobnails
at feet; other bones about head. A second smaller cist found c.1876
about 90m away in same field
- loc Hobnails in DCM
- subst site on middle to upper Purbeck
- date Roman
- comment Other occupation débris and burials at Smedmore Hill
SY 919 800
-
- name Smedmore Hill carpark site
- cat RB Occupation ?
- site Smedmore Hill, Steeple, disused quarry used as carpark, 1944 on
- grid SY 9195 8005
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Farrar 1967 p.145
- desc Inhumation burials
- date undetermined
-
- name West Creech Farm
- cat RB Occupation
- site West Creech Farm, Steeple
- grid SY 8985 8275
- source Dorset SMR
- publ Farrar 1954 p.86
- desc Surface finds of RB pottery near the farm
North side of Weymouth anticline (E to W order)-
- name Portesham IA and Roman settlement
- cat RB Occupation
- site Portesham, Manor Farm
- grid SY 60 85 guessed; not found on 1:25000 map
- source Fitzpatrick AP 2001 p.371
- desc Excavation of 4 areas by AC archaeology (M Laidlaw):
IA and Roman settlement evidence
incl. a rectangular structure formed from flat squared limestone
slabs covering c.3m by 3m in plan, a circular structure c.6m diam. and
pits and postholes. Structures overlain by deep occupation soils containing
many finds.
- subst Location on unknown limestone, could be Cornbrash, etc.
South side of Weymouth anticline-
Wiltshire: Vale of Wardour, N side E to W-
-
- name Portash RB settlement
- cat RB Occupation
- site Portash, Chilmark, 1936 or earlier
- grid ST 972 320
- source Jane Ellis, Salisbury Museum, 2006 May
- desc Cist burials; human bone, pottery and copper alloy objects
- loc Salisbury Museum, SBYWM 1936.84
- subst local rock Gault or Greensand
- date Roman
- cont Jane Ellis
-
- name Chilmark RB settlement
- cat RB Occupation
- site Withy Beds NW of Fonthill House
- grid ST 947 319
- source Pugh and Crittall 1957,
VCH Wilts 1 pt.1 p.56
- publ - WAM 34 414-421
- desc RB settlement; also unlocated Roman stone quarries
(indicated on OS map of RB ed.3, 1956). "Unlocated" in this list in VCH
means that no grid-ref is given, but
Pugpits Wood may be meant
- loc Devizes Museum
- comment VCH Wilts 13 p.115 notes
that "Roman remains were found W of Ridge when Fonthill House was built,
WAM 34 414-421"
- comment see the more recent quarries at Chilmark
which are in upper-middle Purbeck beds
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Wiltshire: Vale of Wardour, S side E to W
Wiltshire: Vale of Wardour, central E to W
Wiltshire: Swindon outlier-
- name Swindon Downs View Road
- cat RB Occupation
- site Swindon, 39 Downs View Avenue, 1940
- grid SU 166 826
- source Pugh and Crittall 1957 p.112
- publ Anon. 1941, `RB in 1940' p.138
- desc Steined well 1'10" diam. and 5' deep with much 4th century pottery
- loc Swindon Museum
- subst Situated on Lower Greensand (Geol Surv map)
-
- name Wanborough Roman town
- cat RB Occupation
- site Wanborough near Swindon
- grid SU 195 853
- source Pugh and Crittall 1957
(VCH Wilts 1.1) p.117
- publ Passmore AD 1914
- publ Passmore AD 1922a
- publ Cunnington ME 1932 p.207
- publ Passmore AD 1937
- publ Passmore 1948
- desc Site of town Durocornovium; for this identification see
Passmore 1948. Structural remains:
stone slabs of paving and walls, some ... of Swindon stone; 1 or 2 wells
near Covingham Farm. Area 1300 by 500yd.
- desc Cunnington: township covers the present farms of Covenham, Lotmead
and Nythe
- subst PS, PL?
- date 1st century to end of Roman period (pottery)
- interp source of stone presumably in Swindon area
(Okus,
Swindon Hill)
- interp Passmore 1914 p.45 asserts `the Swindon stone (Portlandian) ...
establishes that the limestones and building stones on Swindon Hill
were worked by a resident quarryman on behalf of the Roman station
at Wanborough, only 2 1/4 miles away in a straight line'
- interp see also Pugh RB 1973
- comment see also Wanborough
building material in Unclassified section
Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire
Sussex-Kent
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