Find Spot record MDO1802 - Roman finds near Holway Copse, Oborne

Centred ST 636196. Samian ware and coarse Romano-British pottery; possible settlement site. Finds in Sherborne Castle Museum. <1-2>

This area was under crop when visited and no surface finds were made. There appears to be no extant remains of a possible Romano British settlement. <3>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1951, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1950, 77-78 (Serial). SDO50.

‘7. Holway Copse. ST(31)/63551961; 1924/2293-4. This site overlooks Higher Sandford Orcas, and is in the parish of Castleton although the copse itself is in Somerset. From surface observation for a number of years there appears to be again a similar hutted site, fragmentary Samian ware and Romano-British pottery, etc., being found. It will be noted that all these sites follow on the junction of the sands and the inferior oolites and therefore are ideal positions for early occupation, particularly as in nearly every case ample supplies of water are given out by the lower beds of the sands nearby.’

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1955, 148 (Serial). SDO55.

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 18-AUG-77 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199490 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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