Find Spot record MDO7712 - Roman pottery and worked flints from Rushton Common, East Stoke

(SY 88778660) Many flakes and scrapers, also late Romano-British pottery, found 1945. <1>

A large quantity of flints and some R.B. pottery, found on the surface 350 yds south-west of Holme Bridge, by Mr. R.D. Sansom in 1947. The pottery, largely fragments of coarse black ware, included a rim of a bowl of a Collingwood's type 30 and a base of metallic lustred beaker of New Forest ware (early 4th century A.D.) The flints were mostly crude scrapers with some half-round types; others were primary flakes with secondary chipping, and one broken flint point. The finds are in Dorset County Museum Reserve Collection. (1947.3). <2>

Sited to SY 88768662 by Mr. R.D. Ransome. <3>

Area under grass and no surface finds were made during field perambulation. <4>

<1> Calkin, J B, 1950, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 (Map). SWX2543.

<2> Farrar, R A H, 1949, Corfe Castle, Fitzworth Point, p65-66 (Article in serial). SWX2544.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1950, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1949, 65-66 (Serial). SDO49.

<3> Annotated Record Map 6 (Dorset County Museum) (Map). SWX2545.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 609 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(52) Rushton Common (SY 88 NE). Occupation Debris comes from Valley Gravel and Alluvium about 15 ft. above sea level beside the Frome some 350 yds. S.W. of Holme Bridge (88788650). Romano-British coarse pottery including 4th-century types and many worked flints, in D.C.M., were found in the meadows in 1947, apparently on the flood-plain.'

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455182 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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