Monument record MDO27460 - Iron Age occupation New Quay Road, Hamworthy

A pit and a possible salt-boiling hearth, both of possible Late Iron Age or Roman date were recorded in a watching brief at 2-4 New Quay Road in 1985.

A watching brief by Poole Museum at 2-4 New Quay Road Hamworthy in 1985 revealed two undated, but probably late Iron Age or Roman, features -- a pit and a possible salt-boiling hearth. The pit was 1.2 m across and 0.9 m deep. The possible hearth comprised a red fired clay layer 0.7 m long and 0.1 m thick with soot/charcoal on the upper surface. The fragments of fired clay from this feature were heavily sand-tempered and 20-60 mm thick with a surface on one side only. One fragment was indented, perhaps to take a fire bar. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 159 (Serial). SDO85.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888472 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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