Monument record MDO6149 - Bailey Gate, Sturminster Marshall

Romano-British occupation remains found in the 1930s during gravel quarrying are likely to have come from this vicinity. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1964, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1963, 105 (Serial). SDO63.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 611 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(47) Bailey Gate (SY 99 NW). Occupation Debris has been found W. of Church House in gravel pits over Upper Chalk on the 100 ft. ridge S. of the river Winterborne. Several pits containing Romano-British pottery were observed in 1936, presumably in the workings traceable on the brow of the hill (944992). Pottery found in 1935 presumably in the same workings is in Poole Museum. (Dorset Procs. LXXXV (1963), 105; Bournemouth Daily Echo, 11 Sept. 1937.)'

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