Find Spot record MDO7548 - Late Iron Age to Late Romano-British pottery, Towns End, Corfe Castle

A collection of Late Iron Age and Late Romano-British pottery was recovered from foundation trenches for a new house at Town's End, Corfe Castle during or prior to 1964.

SY 96308117 "PA Brown reports that Mr D King, occupant of one of a group of new houses at Town's End adjoining Corfe Common, about 100 ft above sea level on Wealden Beds, has a quantity of sherds found in digging the foundations; these include Iron Age 'C' or early Romano-British ware, and later Romano-British sherds.
Inspection of the garden yielded negative results. A neighbour, Mrs Bollom, has a quantity of medieval sherds from her house (96288117)". <1>

No further information. <4>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1965, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1964, 117 (Serial). SDO64.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 596-597 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Roman pottery and in some cases shale objects have come from the following sites not listed as monuments: (i) clay-pits S. of Norden Farm (Dorset Procs. LXXIII (1951), 88–9; Ant. J. XXXI (1951), 193–4); (ii) Challow Hill (Dorset Procs.LXXXVII (1965), III; (iii) Town's End, SY 96308117 (Dorset Procs. LXXXVI (1964), 117); (iv) Lynch (Purbeck Papers III (1859–60), 220; Dorset Procs. LXXVII (1955), 150); (v) Chapman's Pool (Dorset Procs. XIII (1892), 183). For the Roman objects and intrusive inhumations probably of that age, in two barrows at Afflington, see Round Barrows, Corfe Castle (183–4); for two settlements, both probably of Roman date, associated with 'Celtic' fields, see Settlements, Corfe Castle (221–2).’

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 391, 587 (Index). SDO147.

<4> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, 20-MAR-2003 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AF00137 (Index). SDO14738.

Corfe Common, Dorset

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456842 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 10 2023 3:36PM