Monument record MDO7746 - Romano British occupation debris, Acton, Langton Matravers

Romano British occupation debris including daub, several unfinished hand cut armlets and turned armlet cores and a large concentration of flint flakes including rough tools.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1949, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1948, 43 (Serial). SDO48.

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

The site lies in a field of rough grassland colonized by low shrubs. This field has been badly disturbed by past quarrying. To the W and E are fields occasionally ploughed and in ley pasture. 500m to the N where the burial was found area quarries still in use. 7/7/D.

<2> Papworth M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 38 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

Iron Age and Romano-British occupation debris associated with the Kimmeridge shale armlet industry was discovered during quarrying and partially excavated and recorded by J.B. Calkin in 1945 (Calkin 1948, 43). The finds from the site included Early Iron Age pottery, hand cut and lathe turned shale armlets and armlet cores, and large concentrations of flint flakes including rough tools, at a depth of 1m.

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