Monument record MDO8351 - Iron Age burial, Bovington Camp, Wool

SY 83218911 "Bovington Camp. A Durotrigian pot, probably from an inhumation burial, was found in 1962 at about 150ft on the crest on the low ridge of Bagshot Beds occupied by the permanent military camp. The vessel, a bowl of Brailsford's Durotrigian class 2 (in D.C.M.), was found in pieces about 3 ft
below the surface in laying electric cable to the junior ranks club." <1-2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1966, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1965, 110-111 (Serial). SDO65.

‘A Durotrigian pedestalled bowl from Bovington army camp, Wool. In 1962 the County Museum received from Miss June Burgess a bead-rim pedestalled bowl (D.C.M. 1962. 17) of Brailsford’s Durotrigian type 2, found recently by her father at Bovington army camp. From information received rom Colonel C. H. McVean, and subsequent investigation by the writer, it appears tht the pieces, amounting to most of the vessel, which has been reconstructed by Mr. A. T. Ruby, were found at a depth of about 3ft. in digging a trench for an electric cable for the new Bovington Club replacing former barrack huts in Bapaume Road, opposite the N.A.A.F.I. building. The site (SY 83218911) was about 6ft. west of the N.E. corner of the Club, a few feet from its wall. No other finds or human bones were noted, but it seems likely from its substantially whole condition that it belonged to a burial. The site is on the crest of a low east-west ridge on Bagshot beds about 150ft. above sea level.
The vessel (cf. Maiden Castle, no. 187, but without the lattice pattern) is of dark grey to grey-brown sandy ware, horizontally burnished black outside, and on the inside of the rim; the matt interior is striated from ‘fettling’ or wiping out by the potter, horizontally in the upper half, vertically in the lower. The blackness is probably due to greater retention of carbon by the burnished are during firing.’

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 620 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455340 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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