Monument record MDO19062 - Roman building, All Saints Church House, Durngate Street/Icen Way, Dorchester

During the digging of the foundations for All Saints' Church House in March 1898, a fragment of tesselated floor was found. This was probably on the south side of the building as apparently the floor seemed as if it extended under Durngate Street. The fragment was lifted and given to the Dorset County Museum, but cannot be traced. It was a length of guilloche in black, white and two greys. No trace of the associated building was recorded. The size of the fragment is not known, nor is it clear whether it was in situ.

During the digging of the foundations for All Saints' Church House in March 1898, a fragment of tesselated floor was found. This was probably on the south side of the building as apparently the floor seemed as if it extended under Durngate Street. It was found at a depth of about 2.1-2.4m (7 or 8 feet). The fragment was lifted and given to the Dorset County Museum, but cannot be traced. No trace of the associated building was recorded. The size of the fragment is not known, nor is it clear whether it was in situ. <1-5>

The mosaic was a length of guilloche in black, white and two greys. <4> <6>

<1> Anon, 1898, Dorset County Chronicle, 4 (Serial). SDO9805.

<2> Moule, H J, n. d., Notes made by Mr H. J. Moule on Roman mosaic floors found in or around Dorchester, no. 8 (Unpublished document). SDO10092.

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1898, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, liv (Serial). SDO12.

<4> Moule, H J, 1906, Dorchester Antiquities, 38 (Bibliographic reference). SDO9552.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 566, no. 201 (Monograph). SDO150.

<6> Cosh, S R, and Neal, D S, 2005, Roman Mosaics of Britain. Volume II South-west Britain, 101 (Monograph). SDO10182.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1410266 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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