Monument record MDO2371 - Elmdene, South Street, Sherborne; post-medieval culvert

A probably post-medieval stone culvert was revealed when boys from Sherborne School, under the direction of their housemaster Mr. G.J.B. Watkins, conducted an excavation in the kitchen garden of Elmdene, South Street during 1952.

The excavation was immediately to the west of Culverhayes car park where Roman remains had been discovered during the digging of drains the previous year. Romano-British relics were discovered in this excavation at a similar level. However, they were greatly disturbed, partly by the stone culvert. [1]

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1953, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1952, 108 (Serial). SDO52.

<1> Bean, C E, 1952, A Romano-British site near Culverhayes, Sherborne. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 108 (Article in serial). SDO10308.

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