Monument record MDO7849 - Roman occupation on Fir Hill in Moreton Park, Moreton

Pieces of late Iron Age or Romano-British pottery found in ploughsoil on the lower slopes on the northern side of the hill. Waste from the manufacture of shale armlets is said to have been 'found in an earthen pot' on the west side of the hill in 1807.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1964, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1963, 99 (Serial). SDO63.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1966, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1965, III (Serial). SDO65.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 603 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(31) MORETON PARK (SY 88 NW). Occupation Debris comes from the lower N. slope of Fir Hill below the 100 ft. contour, on Valley Gravel. The remains consist of a few sherds of Iron Age 'C' or Romano-British coarse ware from plough-soil E. of the sunken fence (80808867). four turned shale armlet cores of Calkin's class C are preserved at Moreton House, residue of a quantity 'found in an earthen pot in digging the ditch to the fence on the addition being made to the Fir hill on the west side in 1807'. (Dorset Procs. LXXXV (1963), 99; LXXXVII (1965), III.) .'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455338 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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