Find Spot record MDO2534 - Roman occupation, Stoke Abbott

Surface finds of tesserae have been reported from this field, which is situated below the Roman fort at Waddon Hill. A linear feature which it is said may be the remains of a flint wall, disturbed by the plough, has also been seen here. This may indicate an area of occupation in the Roman period, though it should be noted that the reported finds do not appear to include pottery or other material of a domestic nature.

Red and white tesserae have been found scattered by the plough in all parts of the field at ST 448017, to the north of the Roman camp on Waddon Hill. At one point the disturbed remains of what may be a flint wall are visible as a slight ridge running north-south. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1960, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1959, 106 (Serial). SDO59.

'Romano-British finds below Waddon Hill, Stoke Abbott. Capt. A. W. J. Cobham of Beaminster reports that in the field (ST 448017) on the north below the Roman military camp on Waddon Hill excavated by Graham Webster in 1959, a number of red and white tesserae have been found scattered by the plough in all parts of the field. No coins or pottery have been found, but at one point what might be the disturbed remains of a flint wall running north-south are visible as a slight ridge. Capt. Cobham also says that when the old quarry on the hill was being worked some years ago, several Roman coins were found by the late farmer of Stoke Knap Farm at the side of the cart track to the quarry, the site being at about the grid ref. 446015. One of the coins seen by Capt. Cobham was of the 1st century.'

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193124 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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