Monument record MDO19111 - Roman building, Mr Templeman's Garden, Cedar Park, South Street, Dorchester

Price, J, 1772, Plan of Dorchester, q (Map). SDO9548.

Hutchins, J, 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. Volume 2. 3rd edition, 394 (Monograph). SDO9443.

Acland, J E, 1923, An Unidentified Roman Pavement, 112 (Article in serial). SDO9625.

Rosse, J, 1923, An Unidentified Roman Pavement, 147 (Article in serial). SDO9626.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 564 no. 194e (Monograph). SDO150.

'(194) Buildings with mosaic pavements have been found at various times between South Street and Trinity Street in the area formerly known as Cedar Park, and to the W. of Trinity Street. They may belong to a large house W. of the street (179) running S. in the centre of the town. … (e) A damaged mosaic pavement was found in c. 1725 in Mr. Templeman's garden occupying the later Cedar Park and perhaps an equivalent area to the N., between South Street and Trinity Street. The pavement may originally have measured about 14 ft. by 12 ft. The design within a plain border was a swastika pattern on a white ground enclosing at least six panels 2 ft. square, in echelon, containing rosettes with at one end a band of lozenges. (Hutchins II, 394, (fig.) 692; Notes and Queries XVII (1921–3), 112, 147.)'

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