Monument record MDO19067 - Albert Road/Cornwall Road, Dorchester; Roman burials

Opposite 8 Albert Road at SY68909057, during drain laying in 1896, the skeleton of a man had an expanding bracelet on the thigh, and nearby, a jar above a skull was thought to have been used for a cremation. In Cornwall Road to the SW, the top of another large vessel, found during the same works, may also have been used for a cremation. Of two further burials in Albert Road, one had an armlet on each wrist, the other having one armlet. More finds suggest that there were other burials. Some of the finds are in Dorset County Museum. <1-6>

Two inhumations were excavated in the rear of 43 Cornwall Road in 1986 and are undoubtedly part of the Borough Gardens Cemetery. <7>

<1> 1896, AN INTERESTING FIND (Article in serial). SDO9798.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1897, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, xxiii-xxvii (Serial). SDO11.

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1900, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1900, xxii (Serial). SDO14.

<4> Moule H J, 1900, Dorset-found Celtic and Roman Bronze Objects in the Dorset County Museum, 65, 69-71, 84, 92 (Article in serial). SWX2269.

<5> Moule, H J, 1901, Dorchester Antiquities, 2, 29 (Bibliographic reference). SDO9439.

<6> 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.222b (Monograph). SDO150.

<7> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1987, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1986, 184 (Serial). SDO86.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1430838 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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