Monument record MDO7747 - Romano British Graves at Putlake Farm, Langton Matravers

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1960, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1959, 122-123 (Serial). SDO59.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 602 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(44) Putlake Farm (SZ 07 NW). Inhumation Burials and Occupation Debris have been found S. of the farmhouse above the 300 ft. contour.
A collapsed stone cist, with two pieces of a coarse ware mug, perhaps a local copy of a 2nd-century type, lying on the cover-stones, was found in making a silo in 1957 (00197837). Remains of two inhumations without cists were found nearby about 1 ft. below surface, one with bowl fragments of Brailsford's Durotrigian class 1 (cf. P.P.S. XXIV (1958), 103); more burials were suspected in the W. side of the silo. Surface debris in the field, including beach-pebbles (sling-stones?), shale, and Romano-British sherds, suggest nearby occupation. (Dorset Procs. LXXXI (1959), 122–3.)
Two Roman coin hoards contained in vessels are untraced. One came from an extension c. 1842 to Leeson House (004786); the other, including a coin of Constantine, was ploughed up at 'Langton' in 1817 (Hutchins I (1861), 560; D.C.M. Parishes Index).’

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 289 (Index). SDO147.

Lies in a field occasionally ploughed and in ley pasture when visited. OS SZ07NW19. 7/7/D

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457473 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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