Monument record MDO6396 - Medieval building, Witchampton

Foundations of a rectangular building found during excavations in 1923-24. The building had flint walls with traces of a rammed chalk floor, upon which were found a medieval coin and whale-bone chessmen. The building, with other walls noted in the vicinity, was interpreted as part of a larger complex of buildings probably associated with the manor house.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 110 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(21) FOUNDATIONS (99060639), probably mediaeval, were found in 1923–4 some 70 yds. N.W. of Monument (2), during the excavation of Monument (23). The remains, perhaps part of the same complex as (2), comprised a rectangular building (23½ ft. by 12 ft.) with flint walls and a rammed chalk floor. Upon the floor was a ¼d. of Henry II, mediaeval pottery, and whale-bone chessmen (Arch. LXXVII (1927), 77.) Other walls were noted some 30 yds. to N.W. (J.R.S., XV (1925), 238.)’

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