Monument record MWX3616 - Roman domestic and industrial occupation by Jordan Hill, Weymouth

Finds from the cemetery area north and north east of the temple at Jordan Hill include a number of objects, not definitely found with burials in some cases suggesting domestic or industrial occupation.

The RCHM notes that some finds from the area of the cemetery to the N and NE of the temple at Jordan Hill are not necessarily from burial A and that some finds suggest domestic or even industrial use. These finds include, iron spear heads, , saddle and rotary quern-stones, chert and flint balls, a shale armlet and lathe turned armlet cores, a Durotrigian silver coin, three coins of the 3rd and 4th centuries, sherds of New Forest ware and others and pieces resembling salt-boiling briquetage.(1)

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

DCC SMR, to 2003, Former DCC SMR Card Index (Index). SWX8285.

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