Find Spot record MDO7818 - Roman pottery, Charborough Park, Morden

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1964, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1963, 105 (Serial). SDO63.

<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.

'(57) Charborough Park (SY 99 NW). Occupation Debris and Inhumation Burials have been found in the park. The former consisted of Romano-British sherds (not traced) found in 1956 in replacing a post in the deer-fence in High Wood about 150 yds. W. of Charborough Tower, on an outlier of Reading Beds over Upper Chalk about 300 ft. above sea level (92789752). The burials were found in the Chalk in making a plantation fence on the estate in 1864 about 100 yds. N. of a large barrow 'towards the west end of Charborough Down'; 14 to 16 skeletons, extended with feet to E., were placed parallel 2 ft. apart in a line N.-S. (Dorset Procs. LXXXV (1963), 102; Hutchins III, 505–6.)'

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457321 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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