Monument record MDO19063 - Roman building, Woolworth's, 47 South Street, Dorchester

1898, More Roman Pavement. Dorset County Chronicle, 4 (Article in serial). SDO9796.

Moule, H J, 1901, Dorchester Antiquities, 8 (Bibliographic reference). SDO9439.

Farrar, R A H, 1962, 'Extension to Woolworth's, 47 South Street, Dorchester' Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 90 (Article in serial). SDO9797.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 564, no.194c; 589, no.227c (Monograph). SDO150.

'(194) Buildings with mosaic pavements have been found at various times between South Street and Trinity Street in the area formerly known as Cedar Park, and to the W. of Trinity Street. They may belong to a large house W. of the street (179) running S. in the centre of the town. … (c) A fragment of mosaic pavement with a similar pattern to (b), and probably part of the same floor, was found in 1898 on a site to the S., now occupied by Woolworth's Store, 47 South Street (D.C.C., 12th May 1898, 4; Dorset Procs. LXXXIII (1961), 90). A length of 'subway' running parallel with the road was also seen (Moule, 28; see Monuments (195) and (227c)).' and '(c) Other records of conduits or ‘subways’ in Dorchester are inadequate but ought not to be ignored. Under the County Museum, High West Street (69229076), an ‘underground passage’ cut into the Chalk was seen in 1880 running S.S.W., with mortared flint walls about 2 ft. high ‘set back 6 in. on each side’ (Moule). ... in 1898 a like feature was seen, parallel with the same street and evidently close to the mosaic (194C), in building Messrs. Duke's former offices on the site now occupied by Messrs. Woolworth (69229055).'

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