Monument record MDO8098 - Roman salt boiling site, Brandy Bay, Tyneham

Occupation debris, some probably from salt-boiling, comes from adjoining sites below Tyneham Cap, and confirms Dr Frend's note of Iron Age C and Romano-British pottery at SY 89397961. Scraps of burnt shale and flint-gritted ware resembling salting briquetage were found at SY 89347956 in 1958, and Romano- British sherds and one probably of Iron Age A came from the cliff edge at SY 89217941. <1-2>

Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 178 (Index). SDO147.

‘Lies in a field regularly ploughed. Further to the S. pottery has been found eroding from the cliffs. 7/7/D.’

<1> Frend, W H C, 1936, MS in Dorset County Museum Iron Age and Roman Sites in Purbeck (Unpublished document). SWX2504.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1968, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1967, 146 (Serial). SDO67.

‘(ii) Tyneham Cap (SY 89347956); a few scrapes of burnt and unburnt shale, a limpet shell, and a few tiny pieces apparently of heavily gritted salt-boiling ‘briquetage’, found in rabbit-scrapes in rough pasture. The site is a re-location of that noted by Dr. W. H. C. Frend ‘below the lowest lynchet on Tyneham Cap’ (Proceedings, Vol. 71 (1949), p. 53, where the heading ‘Gaulter Gap’ should read ‘Hobarrow Bay.’

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 612 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(43) Brandy Bay (SY 87 NE). Occupation Debris, some probably from salt-boiling, comes from two adjacent sites on the cliffs below Tyneham Cap, near the junction of Portland Sands with Kimmeridge Clay.
Dr. W. H. C. Frend's note of Iron Age 'C' and Romano-British pottery at a site (89397961) comparable with that at Hobarrow Bay (41) is confirmed by a few scraps of burnt shale and reddish flint-gritted ware of fabric resembling salting 'briquetage' found in 1958 about 70 yds. S.W. some 300 ft. above sea level (89347956). Romano-British sherds and one probably of Iron Age 'A' come from the cliff edge 220 yds. S.W. (89217941). Stone cobbles and Iron Age 'A' sherds noted by Frend in the cliff face between Tyneham Cap and Broad Bench are unlocated. Objects are in D.C.M. (W. H. C. Frend, 'Iron Age and Roman Sites in Purbeck' (MS. in D.C.M., 1936), 4, 6; Dorset Procs. LXXI (1949), 53; LXXXIX (1967), 146.)’

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BB76/02009 (Index). SDO14738.

FROM 'SALT'/1975/FIG.8A.SEE ALSO SY87NE4. Donor: UNKNOWNCopyright: UNKNOWN

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BB76/02010 (Index). SDO14738.

FROM 'SALT'/1975/SIMILAR TO FIG.8A.(IDENTICAL)SEE ALSO SY87NE4. Donor: UNKNOWNCopyright: UNKNOWN

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS53/F81/1 (Index). SDO14738.

SALT BOILING SITE AT TYNEHAM. DITCH FROM ITS WEST END LOOKING EAST.

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS53/F81/3 (Index). SDO14738.

SALT BOILING SITE AT TYNHAM. EARTHWORK FROM RIGHT ANGLE LOOKING NORTH.

<8> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS53/F81/4 (Index). SDO14738.

SALT BOILING SITE AT TYNEHAM. PLATFORM FROM S SHOWING SLOPE RISING IN BACKGROUND & FALLING AWAY IN FOREGROUND.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455097 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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