Monument record MDO6274 - Building at Long Ground, Wimborne St Giles

A small medieval building comprising two rooms with a paved yard. The building has stone walls and finds included thirteenth-century pottery and fragments of glazed tile.

Foundations of a small building at SU 01221862, some 400 yards noth east of Oakley Farm, are composed of flint and stone and appear to represent two rooms with an ajoining paved yard. Associated pottery and glazed tile fragments are 13th century. <1-3>

Two sherds of Romano-British pottery and part of a Romano-British mortar were found on the site. Further field-walking at the site suggests it had a higher status than originally thought. Pottery forms, a jetton buckle-plate and coin, confirms a C12th-C13th date. <4>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1951, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1950, 92-93 (Serial). SDO50.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1952, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951, 104 (Serial). SDO51.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 99 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(31) FOUNDATIONS (01221862) of a small building, some 400 yds. N.E. of Oakley Farm at the N. extremity of the parish, are composed of flint and stone and appear to represent two rooms with a paved yard adjacent. Associated pottery and glazed tile fragments are of the 13th century (Dorset Procs., 72 (1950), 93).’

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 153-154 (Serial). SDO84.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213484 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 5 2022 3:39PM