Monument record MDO7753 - Romano-British pottery found above Dancing Ledge, Langton Matravers

<1> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 284 (Index). SDO147.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1976, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1975, 67 (Serial). SDO75.

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1964, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1963, 105 (Serial). SDO63.

<4> Papworth M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 50 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

Romano-British occupation site discovered by P.A. Brown circa 1975, west of Spyway Barn and south of Priest’s Way on the limestone ridge near Dancing Ledge. A small area of black soil was noticed astride a trackway leading south-east to a quarry, and a flint scrapper and a quantity of pottery was recovered, including a samian sherd and a black burnished ware of relatively early Roman date (Farrar 1975, 67). The site was visited 15/9/1994 and several body sherds of Early Iron Age pottery and a flint core were found around the quarry edge at SY99517751. A small fragment of Samian pottery was also found here. Pottery has been found 350m to the south 112,209 and flint tools 112,346 and a field system 112,345 have been identified in the field to the west.

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