Find Spot record MDO852 - Iron Age and Romano-British pottery, Cheselbourne

Several sherds of pottery were recovered from ploughed land in 1954. One had protruding flint grits and seems in the 'Iron Age A' tradition; another was part of a Romano-British platter. The remainder were indeterminate but consistent with a broadly Romano-British date.

'Cheselbourne, Woodsdown. The area, ST(31)/77820020, is under plough, and the Celtic field lynchets are slight. Several sherds were recovered in 1954 (D.C.M. 1955.41); one with protruding flint grits would appear to be in the Iron Age 'A' tradition, another was part of a Romano-British platter, while the remainder were indeterminate but consistent with Romano-British date. A minute scrap of Samian (not kept) was found west of Bramblecombe Lane, at about 779003, near a probable round-barrow (77990035, not recorded by O.S.).

Further north, on the former 'Bramblecombe Common', 78000118, a rim of Samian form Dr. 29 and a Samian base fragment, as well as a shapeless piece of earthenware tile, were picked up in an area of ploughed-out Celtic field scarps (1955.40). Slight surface irregularities point to the possibility of a settlement in the vicinity.' {1}

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1954, 75-76 (Serial). SDO54.

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