Find Spot record MDO49009 - Human remains, 13 Front Street, Portesham

The disarticulated remains of parts of two skeletons were found during lowering of garden levels in 1994. The site was examined by Peter Woodward of the Dorset County Museum. The remains were in two separate areas and below a layer of garden soil containing post-medieval pottery. No grave cuts could be seen.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1995, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1994, 130 (Serial). SDO94.

‘Portesham, No 13 Front Street, SY 60308592. (DCM Entry 1917). During the lowering of garden levels the disarticulated human remains of at least two adults in two separate areas, were recorded below c. 1 m of black garden soils and above a soil terrace c. 0.5 m deep. No grave cuts were recorded and the garden soils contained post-medieval pottery. One group of leg bones were aligned east-west and found close to a length of dressed chalk with a shallow ‘U’ channel along its length, and laid on the lower soil terrace. This may be earlier than the present stone-built house, 18th/19th century.’

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