Monument record MDO18350 - Roman chalk floor, Dorset County Hospital Annexe, Somerleigh Road, Dorchester

A chalk floor, apparently of Roman date, was exposed during the construction of an annexe to the Dorset County Hospital in 1949 and recorded by R A H Farrar. This floor was possibly part of a building which fronted on to the N-S Roman street which was found to the west.

A chalk floor, apparently of Roman date, was exposed during the construction of an annexe to the Dorset County Hospital in 1949 and recorded by R. A. H. Farrar. The chalk floor was found in the angle between the front of the main hospital building an the south wing. The floor was exposed at a depth of about 2.1m (7ft). Part of a Roman quern was found near by (1). This floor was possibly part of a building which fronted on to the N-S Roman street which was found to the west.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 1410233 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Farrar, R A H, 1949, Dorset County Hospital Annexe (Excavation archive). SDO9996.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, p562, no. 190 (Monograph). SDO150.

<1> Farrar, R A H, 1949, Dorchester, County Hospital, Somerleigh Road. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO9756.

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