Find Spot record MDO7656 - Romano-British occupation near Arish Mell, East Lulworth

Finds comprising a 4-lugged stone mortar, a bronze trumpet-brooch, a rough quern-stone and a bronze mounting in the shape of a cockerel, suggesting occupation near Arish Mell. <1>

Handwritten note (unknown handwriting) on old SMR card: Drawing of brooch in DCM record - Roman Britain, Brooches. Collingwood Group R No. 1 <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 602, East Lulworth (Monograph). SDO150.

‘There are no known sites in the parish, but several discoveries suggest occupation near Arish Mell (SY 854803): a 4–lugged stone mortar (D.C.M. 0.231.1) 'from a barrow at Arish Mell'; a bronze trumpetbrooch (1934.7.2), found in 1932 at a depth of 18 ins. in laying electric cable 20 yds. from Maiden Plantation; and a rough quern-stone found near quantities of iron slag 'in breaking up a portion of the Down near Arishmill' (Warne, C.T.D. (1866), cpf, 26). A bronze mounting in the shape of a cockerel (1886.9.127) also comes from the parish.’

<2> DCC SMR, to 2003, Former DCC SMR Card Index (Index). SWX8285.

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