Monument record MDO3926 - Eight Romano British burials at Great Bournes, Hanford

Eight inhumation burials, accompanied by coins of Constantine, were found further up the hill from a Romano-British building discovered in 1860.

Eight Romano-British burials. These were all inhumations and were associated with coins of Constantine. The burials were all removed in 1860, and the location of the burial group is now uncertain. They are recorded as being "higher up the hill" from the Romano-British building at Great Bournes (HOB UID 206121) which was excavated at the same time. The site has since been ploughed and the graves may have been destroyed.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 104 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(5) SITE OF ROMANO-BRITISH BUILDING (86051018), with occupation debris and inhumation burials, known locally as 'Great Bournes', was discovered in 1860 on the S.E. slopes of Hod Hill. The building had internal divisions indicating several rooms; stone roofing tiles were found and also the remains of a furnace with iron bars joined together like a grating, and a metallic mass of slag. Finds included shale bracelets and spindle whorls and 'amulets in coarse pottery', presumably loom weights. Higher up the hill were eight inhumations and Constantinian coins (Hutchins I, 309)'.

<2> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1445943 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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