Monument record MDO7728 - Romano British cist burial, Metherhills, Kimmeridge

An oval stone cist, lined with water worn boulders, apparently plastered and containing human remains, with a rough hand-cut shale ring on either side of the skull.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1955, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1953, 52 (Serial). SDO53.

‘Metherhills, Kimmeridge (Site3). In view of the Rev. J. H. Austen’s statement that coal-money was abundant about on hundred years ago at Metherhills, I dug over thirty small trial holes f4 ft. x 2 ft. on the south side of this hill in 1946. Evidence of shale working was found in an oval patch which began near the southernmost point of the 200 ft. contour, and ran for 40 yds. south-westwards down the hillside. The remains consisted of about 250 flint flake sections, 180 other worked flints and some 50 small sherds, among which New Forest ware and conical flanged bowls could be recognized.’

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 601 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 256 (Index). SDO147.

‘The site lies in a regularly ploughed field, in ley pasture visited. 7/7/D.’

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