Monument record MDO7056 - Romano British settlement, Cuckoo Pound Lane, Worgret, Arne

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1953, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1952, 96 (Serial). SDO52.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 592 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(49) Worgret (SY 98 NW). Occupation Debris was found in 1952 and 1955 in a field W. of Cuckoo Pound Lane, on Valley Gravel, towards the crest of the ridge (91258695) and to the S.E. overlooking the flood-plain of the R. Frome (91488669). The pottery (in D.C.M.), ranging from the 1st or 2nd century to the 4th century, seems to be domestic waste. In an army camp here in 1915 a mass of pottery, untraced, was observed lying on 'river gravel' at a depth of 3 ft. and was thought to be derived from Romano-British pottery-kilns. (Dorset Procs. XXXVI (1915), xl-xli; LXXIV (1952), 96; LXXVII (1955), 151.)’

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1978, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1976, 62 (Serial). SDO76.

‘WAREHAM ST MARTIN (SY 91258695 – 91488669). To the west of Cuckoo Pound Lane (now obliterated by school playing fields) Romano-British occupation debris of the first to fourth century AD has been found. A large settlement enclosure is visible on air photographs, consisting of ditches and possible pits. (D. E. Johnston. The Wareham Bypass (1975)).’

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1987, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1986, 180-181 (Serial). SDO86.

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