Monument record MDO19041 - Tilley's Garage, 26 Trinity Street, Dorchester; Roman building

1925, DISCOVERY OF ROMAN PAVEMENT (Article in serial). SDO9775.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 562-3, no. 192 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(192) Building, mosaic pavement only, found in 1925 under Tilley's Garage, 26 Trinity Street, about 90 ft. from the street and 30 ft. S. of the passage to Somerleigh Road (69149051).

The largest of three disconnected portions thought to have belonged to one pavement was said to have been several feet long and to have been of 'black and white mosaic squares with a centre piece of red and white squares'; another, under one of the garage walls, was 'an elongated triangle in black and white', and the third, an oblong panel, had 'a red and white design down the centre on a black background with a border ing in white and black'. Portions of Roman pavement had been found earlier some 20 yds. away. (D.C.C., 25th June 1925, 5; Moule MS., 8.) A tracing by O. C. Vidler, in D.C.M., of a mosaic fragment in black, white and red said to be from this site, shows a border of two-strand guilloche, parti-coloured squares and a lozenge, and may relate to the earlier discovery. For an arched passage, said to have been found in or about 1925, see Monument (227 c).'

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