Monument record MDO45531 - Cist burial north of Langton House, Langton Long Blandford

A cist cut into the chalk and covered by two large slabs of limestone was discovered during preparations for planting of a plantation around 1830. The cist contained the burial of an adult male and a child, with urns and the bones of a horse and dog. The exact location of this burial is not known.

Two large slabs of limestone covering a shallow chalk-cut cist were discovered, circa 1830, a little north of Langton House (ST 90240562) during the removal of a bank on the side of a hill near the River Stour, for the purpose of making a plantation. Within the cist were an adult male inhumation and a child, lying east-west. At the head and feet were fragments of three "British" urns, accompanied by bones of a horse and dog. Other finds were various pottery sherds including red samian ware, glass, an iron spearhead and a spur or stirrup; part of the rowel being attached ot it. <1-2>

An inhumation in a cist north of Langton House might be Roman, since samian sherds were found nearby. <3>

<1> Society of Antiquaries of London, 1831, Archaeologia 23, 415-6 (Serial). SDO19157.

<2> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1861, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 1, 289 (Monograph). SWX4496.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 45 (Monograph). SDO99.

'An inhumation in a cist N. of Langton House might also be Roman, since samian sherds were found nearby (Hutchins I, 289–90; Archaeologia, XXIII (1830), 415–6).'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209374 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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