Monument record MWX3504 - Roman burials at Verne Common Road (formerly Zigzag Road), Portland

Two of six apparently adult inhumations found while laying water-mains in 1950 in Zigzag (now Verne Common) Road, on the slope E of Victoria Gardens. These two burials were contained in small stone cists, and were accompanied by pottery vessels.

Six apparently adult inhumations were found while laying water-mains in 1950 in Zigzag (now Verne Common) Road, on the slope E of Victoria Gardens. Two of these cists probably dating to the first half of the 2nd century AD were lying N-S with their heads to the N. The bodies had been compressed into short stone cists 3ft 4inches and 3ft 9 inches long. The cist to the N had a coarse ware jar and dish, the other had one coarse ware vessel. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 605 (Monograph). SDO150.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1971, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1970, 143-5 (Serial). SDO70.

<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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 451669 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 26 2023 11:54AM