Monument record MDO8348 - Iron Age/Romano-British settlement at Burton Cross, Wool

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1963, Monuments Threatened or Destroyed. A Select List: 1956-1962 (Monograph). SDO12558.

'WINFRITH NEWBURGH - EAST LULWORTH. BURTON CROSS-ARISH MELL. [SY 826859-854803] Iron Age, Romano-British, mediaeval and 18th-century remains and small finds recorded in examination of pipe-line trench cut for some 4 m. across country from Winfrith Heath to the SE in 1959. (Dorset Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc., Procs., forthcoming.)'

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1970, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1969, 191-192 (Serial). SDO69.

Lovell, J, 1997, 11kV Cable Replacement, Wool, Dorset. Archaeological Watching Brief (Unpublished document). SDO14158.

<1> Fowler P J, 1962, A Note on Archaeological Finds from the A.E.A. Effluent Pipe-line, from Winfrith Heath to Arish Mell, 1959. (Article in serial). SWX7820.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1963, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1962, 125-130 (Serial). SDO62.

<2> 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.

'(50) Burton Cross (SY 88 NW). Occupation Debris was found in 1959 in laying an effluent pipe-line for the Atomic Energy Authority on a gentle S.-facing slope on Reading Beds about 200 ft. above sea level.
A layer of large flints 20 ft. across, and traces probably of horizontal beams about 6 ins. wide, lay about 30 yds. apart on natural sandy subsoil (83628562). An extensive layer of dark soil above contained pottery ranging from late 1st to 4th century, two 2nd-century coins, clay daub and cement-like material, possibly derived from a main building or buildings to N.E. where surface finds include fragments of clay roof-tile. A crop-mark adjoining the latter apparently indicates a rectangular ditched enclosure some 100 ft. by over 120 ft. long cut by the Winfrith Newburgh parish boundary (83728577). Worked flints and sherds, one probably of Iron Age 'A', were also found in the pipe-line trench to W. (83378578). (Dorset Procs. LXXXIV (1962), 125–30; see also Coombe Keynes (21) above.) '

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1993, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1992, 249 (Serial). SDO92.

'BALFOUR FARM, WOOL.
A watching brief was carried out during excavation of a drainage trench (SY 8384 8606).

Evidence of a building and associated pottery of 1st-4th centuries AD has been previously found in this area. Cropmarks and surface finds of daub, cement-like material and ceramic roof tiles in a field to the north-east suggest that other buildings may survive in the vicinity. The area has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

The trench, of which only some 10 m remained open, has been open for some time and observation conditions were not therefore ideal. However, no archaeological features were observed and no artefacts were recovered.

The watching brief was commissioned by Richard G Wylie and Associates and the inspection was carried out by Duncan Coe.'

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1983, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1983, 146 (Serial). SDO83.

'SAMIAN FROM MAGOT'S HILL, WOOL
Part of the base of a samian form 33 stamped OSBI, dating from the Trajanic-Hadrianic period has been found on Field 211, Magot's Hill, Wool. The Roman site there was recorded when the effluent pipeline from Winfrith Heath to Arish Mell was cut through it in 1959 ('A note on archaeological finds from the AEA effluent pipeline', by P. J. Fowler, Dorset Proceedings, Vol. 84 (1962), 125-131.)'

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