Find Spot record MDO173 - Iron Age finds from near The Nursery, Beaminster

Iron Age and Romano-British pottery and striated Roman glass found opposite Beaminster Mill in the field west of the north end of the plantation known as The Nursery.

(ST 47840101) Romano-British and Iron Age pottery found on 15th March 1956, also an early striated glass, probably Romano-British. <1>

J. Stevens Cox has found Romano-British coarse ware sherds, including some of Durotrigian type, in the field at ST 478010, opposite Beaminster Mill, west of the north end of the Nursery plantation. <2>

<1> Annotated Record Map 6 inch, Rec 6" (J Stevens Cox 1958) (Map). SDO17376.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1963, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1962, 112 (Serial). SDO62.

’Mr. Stevens Cox has also found Romano-British coarse ware sherds, including some of Durotrigian type, a short distance upstream opposite Beaminster Mill in the field W. of the N. end of The Nursery (478010).’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193026 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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