Monument record MDO6872 - Coastal site opposite Pergins Island, Holes Bay, Poole

An undated domestic or industrial site comprising a layer of daub was found close to the shore at the northern end of Holes Bay during the construction of the Turlin Moor-Poole pipeline in 1985.

An undated site is recorded opposite Pergins Island at the northern end of Holes Bay. The site consisted of an area of daub, up to 0.3 m thick in places over an area of about eight metres. Unstratified finds from topsoil deposits include two fragments of Romano-British type briquetage and a fragment of iron slag. The date and function of the site are unclear and it may be either industrial or domestic. The daub is high in organic temper and may have derived from a daub/cob structure, a hearth or perhaps from briquetage containers (though the fabric is different from known briquetage in the Poole Harbour area). (1)

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

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