Monument record MDO42346 - Borough Gardens, Dorchester; Roman burials

A skull found in 1921 and other human remains found when tennis courts were laid out in the Borough Gardens at some time between 1901 and 1921. These remains are thought most likely to be Roman inhumation burials and probably part of a larger cemetery along with other Roman burials found in the Borough Gardens and on Albert and Cornwall Roads.

These burials are probably part of a larger cemetery along with other Roman burials found in the Borough Gardens and on Albert and Cornwall Roads (2).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, p582 Dorchester no. 222a (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(222) BOROUGH GARDENS AREA
(a) Inhumations found in the Borough Gardens between 1895 and 1942. … A human skull believed Roman was found in 1921, and a newspaper report of 1942 states that human remains were found when the tennis courts (689903) were laid out (between the O.S. revisions of 1901 and 1928). … (Moule, letter 4 Dec. 1895, in Haverfield Library, Ashmolean Museum; D.C.C., 7 Dec. 1921; 17 Sept. 1942.) …’

<2> National Monuments Record, NMR Monument Record, SY 69 SE 356 (Index). SDO9937.

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