Monument record MDO19045 - WI Tennis Courts, The Grove, Dorchester; ?Roman burials

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 582, no. 223b (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(223) WEST GATE AREA … (b) Inhumations, about 30, found c. 1920 in making the former Women's Institute tennis courts (68849078) about 100 yds. N.E. of (a). No objects were recovered, and the burials, about 2½ ft. deep in marly soil, seemed to have been disturbed, as many of the skulls were broken. (Information, 1951, from Mr. Slade, builder.) Two more were seen some 30 ft. apart in building development of the site in 1965. Both were extended approximately E.-W. (one with head W.) in graves cut a foot or less into the Chalk. They lay on either side of a pair of parallel ditches running N. W. to S.E. (see the Aqueduct (227 a), p. 588); Romano-British sherds were found in the topsoil. (68819080; information from Mr. C.J. Green.)’

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