Monument record MDO7477 - Roman shale working site at Blashenwell, Corfe Castle

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1955, 152 (Serial). SDO55.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1968, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1967, 145 (Serial). SDO67.

'A considerable number of roughly hand-cut shale discs about 1 inch in diameter and 0.5 to 0.75 inch thick with central perforation, and shale armlet lathe cores of class C are found around the scattered limestone slabs of the building'

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1970, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1969, 192 (Serial). SDO69.

A shale spindle whorl of 1 inch diameter, a half finished shale spindle whorl with the top part finished and the lower half still in the rough, further examples of small roughly cut perforated shale discs and a fragment of the upper part of a shale table leg.

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