Monument record MDO8391 - Iron Age and Romano-British occupation site, Weston Farm, Worth Matravers

SY 9697 7730. Occupation debris including sherds of probable IA 'A' pottery, Romano-British sherds of the 1st to 4th centuries and pieces of worked shale were found on a ridge in 1958 on Weston Farm. Finds in Dorset County Museum. <1-2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1965, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1964, 118 (Serial). SDO64.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 621 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(42) Weston Farm (SY 97 NE). Occupation Debris was found in 1958 on a S.-facing ridge about 350 ft. above sea level (96977730), following examination of soil from the site dumped near (41). The objects (in D.C.M.) were sherds of hand-made pottery probably of Iron Age 'A' and pieces of worked shale including a waste disc for a hand-cut armlet, and Romano-British sherds of 1st to 4th century. (Dorset Procs. LXXXVI (1964), 118.)’

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 275 (Index). SDO147.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 575 (Index). SDO147.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456457 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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