Monument record MDO7482 - Roman occupation, Corfe Castle

A probable Roman occupation site to the south of Kingston Barn is known through a finds scatter, a Roman altar and a few large stones possibly from structures within two arable fields. The finds include Samian sherds, New Forest sherds, coarsewares of 1st to 4th century date, and shale waste.

Romano-British occupation debris has been found in arable about 450 ft above sea level S of Kingston Barn (963788). Samian sherds, coarse ware of the 1st or 2nd to the 4th century, fragments of shale and a few large stones, possibly from structures, come from W of the footpath, with, at 96267894, a roughly made Roman altar of Purbeck stone some 14 inches high (Dorset County Museum). Sherds of Iron Age `A', and shale waste, occur in the field (962788) to W. <1-4>

National Record of the Historic Environment, 456426 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1962, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1961, 85-86 (Serial). SDO61.

Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 69 (Index). SDO147.

Site lies in a regularly ploughed field. OS SY97NE25. AP British Gas Corp. //1979//ObliqueAP 9163: 7, 11, 14, 16, 21, 22, 24, 25. 9165: 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 13. 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, 600 (Monograph). SDO150.

<2> 1952, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 93 (Article in serial). SWX2987.

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1954, 79 (Serial). SDO54.

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1970, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1969, 192 (Serial). SDO69.

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