Monument record MDO43224 - Roman shale working at Egliston Mead, Steeple with Tyneham

Occupation debris including evidence of a lathe-turned shale armlet industry seen on the surface. In 1856 the Revd J H Austen investigated the site, and found scattered armlet cores in a black earth, with one piece of finished armlet and a few pieces of pottery.

Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 180 (Index). SDO147.

‘The assumed site of this find is in a regularly ploughed field. 7/7/D.’

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 613-614 (Monograph). SDO150.

'Occupation debris from a lathe-turned shale armlet industry has been found in a field called Egliston Mead near Tyneham village, probably on Wealdon Beds. In 1856 J H Austen examined part of a site thought to cover an acre; many turned armlet cores of Calkin's class 'A' were found scattered in black earth, with a piece of an armlet and a few sherds. The site, about a mile inland from Worbarrow Bay, is possibly Chapel Close (89508050) 'Egglestone Little Mead' on the Tithe map, 1840) or its neighbour 'Egglestone Great Mead' to W.'

<1.1> Austen, J H, 1856-7, Purbeck Papers (1856-7), 91 (Monograph). SWX2801.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455411 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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