Monument record MDO984 - Roman occupation near Chebbard Farm, Dewlish

Romano British occupation debris consisting of 1st to 3rd century pottery and tile fragments. Iron Age pottery found. A square feature noted on aerial photographs may be natural.

Occupation debris, Romano-British, occurs near Chebbard Farm on a gentle SE slope at about 400ft OD (SY75459855). The debris include a Samian and coarse pottery of the 1st to 3rd centuries AD, and tile fragments. Some sherds may be of Iron Age date.

Air photographs show a feature 50 ft square at SY75479852. <1-3>

The feature at SY 75479852 is a shallow depression, circular and almost certainly a natural solution hollow. <4>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1953, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1952, 88-89 (Serial). SDO52.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 88 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(10) Occupation debris, Romano-British, occurs near Chebbard Farm on a gentle S.E. slope at about 400 ft. O.D. (75459855). The debris includes samian and coarse pottery of the 1st to 3rd centuries A.D., and tile fragments. Some sherds may be of Iron Age date (Dorset Procs. LXXIV (1952), 88-9)'.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 331 (Monograph). SDO149.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 20-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454596 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 25 2023 4:32PM