Monument record MDO19079 - Icen Way, Dorchester; Roman burials

Several inhumations found during the digging of the cellars for 25 and 26 Icen Way in 1886. Some early and late Roman finds possibly associated with these burials.

Several inhumations (exact number unknown) were found during the digging of the cellars for 25 and 26 Icen Way in 1886 and recorded by B A Hogg. The burials were described as 'in various postures' and were found in the bottom of a wide trench cut into the chalk. Objects probably recovered from this site include a blue glass 'melon' bead, about 30 hobnails and some pottery including two Black Burnished vessels (one 4th centuryAD bowl with flanged rim) and an olive green glazed jar with seven irregularly spaced groups of repousse bosses of 1st or early 2nd century AD date. (1)

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 575, no. 217a (Monograph). SDO150.

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