Monument record MWX3666 - Possible furnace and a floor at Preston Roman villa, Weymouth

Between parallel walls running east from the mosaic chamber there was a limestone slab floor with a stokehole and rectangular oven or furnace at its eastern end.

Drew having excavated at Preston Roman villa in 1932 noted two parallel walls running E in alignment with the mosaic chamber. The N of these had a single diagonally pitched limestone course, the S one, 2ft 4inches wide at the base had two courses set in clay with a single mortared course set back above. The area between had a limestone slab floor, which was well worn, partly over-lying the wall foundations. Where the paving was missing there were patches of ash and at the E end there was a stokehole and rectangular oven or furnace of 2 and a half ft by 1 and three quarter ft that appeared contemporary with the floor.(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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Apr 3 2021 3:04PM