Find Spot record MDO171 - Iron Age/Roman pottery from The Nursery, Beaminster

A surface scatter of mostly coarse pottery found between 1947 and 1950 at the southern end of the plantation known as The Nursery, situated on the west bank of the River Brit. The pottery included flat-rimmed and flanged bowls suggesting a third-or fourth century date.

(ST 47710088) Coarse black Romano-British pottery, including lst century bead rim pottery and various flanged platter types of 1st to 4th centuries, found by A W J Cobham, 1947-50. <1>

Sherds of Romano-British coarse were, including flat-rimmed 'pie-dishes' and 3rd or 4th century flanged dishes, also an Iron Age C (Durotrigian) bead rim, were found between 1947 and 1950 by Captain Cobham at the south end of the Nursery plantation, ST 477008. <2>

<1> Annotated Record Map 6 inch, Rec 6" (J Stevens Cox 1958) (Map). SDO17376.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1963, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1962, 112 (Serial). SDO62.

‘(iii) Iron Age C (?) and Romano-British. Between 1947 and 1950 Capt. Cobham has noted sherds of Romano-British coarse ware, including flat-rimmed ‘pie-dishes’ and the 3rd or 4th century flanged ditshes, also a bead rim of Iron Age C (Durotrigian) ancestry, at the S. end of the plantation known as The Nursery on the W. bank of the Brit (ST 477008). In the S. corner of the adjacent field to the W., the late Col Drew noted (on the 6-in. O.S. map in the Museum) a La Tène I brooch found in 1945. This has been lost sight of, but Capt. Cobham tells me he believes it was found in a fox-earth by some children.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193030 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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