Find Spot record MDO7172 - Roman finds, Bere Regis

(SY 8402 9727) RB pottery 1948. <1>

No further information regarding this find was obtained during field investigation. The site referred to falls in a pasture field. <2>

Scattered sherds of Romano-British pottery, some of the 4th century, have been found near Bere Down Buildings (8401 9723). <3>

<1> Rivet, A L F, Annotated record map 6", 21.3.53 (Map). SDO17443.

<1.1> Farrar R A H, Annotated Record Map Rec. 6 (R A H Farrar) (Map). SDO17570.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 16-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 593-4 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘The parish contains considerable remains of the Roman road from Old Sarum to Dorchester, to be described in Dorset V. Scattered sherds of Romano-British pottery, some of the 4th century, have been found near Bere Down Buildings (84019723), and a coin of Domitian (81-96) and one of Septimius Severus (193-211) behind the N. rampart of Woodbury hill-fort (856649).’

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455999 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 21 2023 4:32PM