Find Spot record MDO1476 - Iron Age and Roman pottery found west of Symes Hill Copse on Waddon Hill, Loders

Fragments of pottery found during the construction of a reservoir in the 1940s were given to the Dorset County Museum. The pottery was mostly early Iron Age in date but two pieces of Roman pottery were also found.

SY 495 946. Iron Age and Roman pottery found during the construction of a reservoir on Waddon Hill may indicate a settlement site. The pottery was generally Iron Age `A', but Samian ware was also found. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1960, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1959, 106 (Serial). SDO59.

‘An Early Iron Age and Romano-British site at Waddon Hill, Loders.
During the construction of a reservoir on Waddon Hill a few hundred yards north of the village of Loders, a small quantity of pottery was found, mostly of Early Iron Age ‘A’ character but including two Roman sherds, one of samian ware. The pottery (D.C.M. 1948.6) as given to the Museum with a tracing marking the site at SY 495946, just west of Symes’s Hill Copse, above the 300 ft. contour.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 867029 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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