Monument record MDO18596 - Trumpet Major II, Alington Avenue, Dorchester; Roman Grave 078

Probable Late Roman grave 078 was one of seven graves discovered during the small-scale excavations at Trumpet Major II in 1987. The grave was sub-rectangular and oriented WNW-ESE. The burial was severely disturbed by a modern gas pipe trench but was probably that of an adult male disarticulated but probably originally extended No grave goods were recovered. It is probably associated with the late Roman cemetery just to the south on the Alington Avenue site.

Found during a small-scale excavations conducted by Wessex Archaeology on the site of an extension to the Trumpet Major Public House in 1987 (1). The numbers in square brackets below refer to the context and feature numbers used in the published report (1).

Grave [078] was one of seven extended burials were found lying immediately SW of the Trumpet Major Public House during the Trumpet Major II excavations. The sub-rectangular grave was 1.45m long, 0.6m wide, 0.24m deep. The burial was severely disturbed by a modern gas pipe trench but was probably that of an adult male disarticulated but probably originally extended. The burial was unaccompanied by grave goods. The grave is undated but probably belongs to the late Roman period.

<1> Davies, S M, Bellamy, P S , Heaton, M J , and Woodward, P J, 2002, Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87, 137-8 (Monograph). SDO9565.

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