Monument record MDO6535 - Two Roman burials at the foot of Verne Common Road, Portland

Six apparently adult inhumations were found when laying water-mains in 1950 in Verne Common Road (formerly Zigzag Road). … The fourth and fifth graves (SY 68487366) were damaged and of doubtful orientation. The northern-most of these two was in a full length cist with a Trajanic Samian dish and a coarse ware jar, and the other was in an unlined grave also accompanied by dishes and a jar. <1>

Two burials were found at the foot of Verne Common Road. They were damaged and of doubtful orientation. The northernmost was a full-length cist containing a Trajanic dish of Secundus and a coarse ware jar. The second burial was an unlined grave containing Trajanic Samian dishes and the base of a coarse ware jar.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 605 (Monograph). SDO150.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451669 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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