Find Spot record MDO4777 - Roman pottery, Stour Row, Stour Provost

(ST 81482107) The Southern Electricity Board has Recently erected many poles in this area. Two of these disclosed late Romano-British pottery. (1-2)

ST 81502108 - The surveyed site of the nearest electricity pole and the only one in the immediate vicinity though seven others are placed in the southern and western boundary of the field.

The field is grass covered. There were no surface finds of archaeological interest and visible trace of antiquity. (3)

<1> Bean, C E, Annotated record map Corr 6", 1954 (Map). SDO16337.

(ST 81482107) The Southern Electricity Board has recently erected many poles in this area. Two of these disclosed late Romano-British pottery.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1951, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1950, 78 (Serial). SDO50.

’13. Stour Row. ST(31)/815213. The Southern Electricity Board has recently erected many poles in this area. Two of these disclosed late Romano-British pottery. The site may well repay investigation, although it appears to be on Kimmeridge clay.’

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 27-JUL-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

‘ST 81502108 - The surveyed site of the nearest electricity pole and the only one in the immediate vicinity though seven others are placed in the southern and western boundary of the field.

The field is grass covered. There were no surface finds of archaeological interest and visible trace of antiquity.’

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 84 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(35) POTTERY of the late Romano-British period was found in 1950 at 81482107, in an area of Kimmeridge Clay, about 200 ft. above O.D. (Dorset Procs., 72 (1950), 78).’

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206581 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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