Find Spot record MDO7536 - Shale working, Chapman's Pool, Corfe Castle

A few Iron Age/Romano British shale cores were found at Chapman's Pool (centred SY 955769) circa 1892. <1>

Waste from shale armlet industry, abundant cores cited by Mansel Pleydell in 1892. The cliffs surrounding Chapman's pool susceptible to slumping and similar mass movement processes. <2>

<1> Mansel-Pleydell, J C, 1892, Kimmeridge Coal Money and other Manufactured Articles from the Kimmeridge Shale, 183 (Article in serial). SWX2747.

<2> Calkin, J B, 1953, Kimmeridge Coal Money The Romano-British Shale Armlet Industry, 69 (Article in serial). SWX1210.

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1955, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1953, 45-71 (Serial). SDO53.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 525 (Index). SDO147.

‘Waste from shale armlet industry. Abundant cores cited by Mansel Pleydell in 1892. The cliffs surrounding Chapman’s Pool are susceptible to slumping and similar mass movement processes, covered with rough grass and low shrubs. Fields inland to the N. are regularly ploughed but no occupation debris was seen. 7/7/D.’

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456453 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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