Find Spot record MDO7313 - Roman finds from a bowl barrow on Knowle Hill, Church Knowle

A number of Roman finds, including fragments of coarse Iron Age and Romano-British wares and part of shale bracelet were found in the filling of the ditch of a Bronze Age barrow.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1954, 55 (Serial). SDO54.

‘The upper filling of the ditch on the east side produced a few fragments of bead-rim and other coarse Iron Age or Romano-British wares, a worn fragment of Samian, and part of a shale bracelet.’

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Romano-British sherds and a piece of shale armlet were found in the ditch of a Bronze Age barrow (see Round Barrows, Church Knowle (41)) on the E. part of Knowle Hill (Dorset Procs. LXXVI (1954), 53, 55).’

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