Monument record MDO5867 - Romano-British settlement on King Down, Pamphill

A Romano British Settlement which was found in 1965 on the east side of King Down. The settlement coincides with the site of a large oval ditched enclosure visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The enclosure was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A Romano British Settlement which was found in 1965 on the east side of King Down <1-2>. The settlement coincides with the site of a large oval ditched enclosure (250m by 180m) visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <3-4>. The enclosure was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 52 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(71) ROMANO-BRITISH SETTLEMENT (98750390), found in 1965 on the E. side of King Down, lies at about 150 ft. above O.D. towards the N.E. end of a broad flat-topped spur, overlooking the Allen valley. An area of dark soil 50 yds. across contained roofing-tiles, coarse grey and black pottery including a flanged dish and a sherd of New Forest ware, also oyster shells and fragments of shale. The lower stone of a rotary quern was found 300 yds. to E.N.E. (Dorset Procs., 88 (1966), 116).'

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1967, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1966, 116 (Serial). SDO66.

<3> Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 15-JUN-1992, OS/92200 V 315-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16268.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/091 RCHME Inventory: Dorset V (East) (Unpublished document). SDO18032.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209565 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 8 2023 3:59PM