Monument record MDO18633 - County Hall; Infant burial, Grave 490

An infant burial in a shallow grave was found cut into the chalk floor of a Late Roman building 572, excavated by Wessex Archaeology at County Hall, Dorchester, in 1988. This grave was sealed by a repair to the floor.

Found during the excavations carried out by Wessex Archaeology in 1988 prior to construction of the New Computer Wing and car parking facilities at County Hall, Dorchester (1) (2). The numbers in square brackets below refer to the context and feature numbers used in the published report (1).

An infant burial, a neonate aged 6 months, was found in a shallow grave [490] cut into the chalk floor of the late Roman building [572]. This grave was then sealed by a patch to the chalk floor of the building.

Wessex Archaeology, 1988, County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester (Excavation archive). SDO10074.

<1> Smith, R J C, 1993, Excavations at County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, 1988 in the North-West Quarter of Durnovaria (Monograph). SDO9660.

<2> Smith, R J C, 1988, 'Excavations at County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester, 1988' Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 147 (Article in serial). SDO9661.

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