Find Spot record MDO25690 - Small piece of fired clay, identified as briquetage, found at Osmington

A small piece of hand-moulded fired clay, probably part of a small salt-boiling prop, found somewhere along the cliffs at Osmington in 1935. The exact location of this find is not known.

Part of a hand-moulded clay prop (in D.C.M.) probably from salt-boiling, comes from an unrecorded site on the cliffs at Osmington (SY 7282). <1-2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1963, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1962, 113 (Serial). SDO62.

'A small piece of hand-moulded fired clay (D.C.M. 1958.60), resembling a small salt-boiling prop, was found in 1935 by Mr. K. C. Collingwood Selby somewhere along the cliffs at Osmington. No other salt-boiling debris has yet been found in the locality, although there are a few probable pieces in the County Museum reserve collection from the Jordan Hill site a mile or two to the west.'

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 603 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454437 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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