Monument record MDO8096 - Salt boiling site, Worbarrow Bay

Hobarrow Bay. An inhumation burial and occupation debris from a salt-boiling industry come from a mound at the cliff edge below the 100ft contour 1/2 mile SSW of South Egliston and about 300 yds SE of the black- stone outcrop of the Kimmeridge Shale at cliff-top in Brandy Bay. The site consists of a mound, some 75ft in diameter and 8ft high; extending from this is a roughly circular dished area of some 120ft diameter. Excavation by Miles to a stated depth of 20 to 30ft revealed pottery, briquetage, objects of iron, shale, bone and horn, animal bones, shells, clinker, and beds of clay, ashes, and burnt shale. A covered stone cist at 5ft contained an inhumation, another at 12ft, below human bones, had ashes and snail shells; a third of shale, and slightly lower, contained shale ash. In the centre at an unspecified depth, a stone wall about 3ft thick, with divisional RELATED FEATURES)

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.

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1861, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 1, p627 (Monograph). SWX4496.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 17-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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