Monument record MWX376 - Undated burial, North Common, Portland

A vessel with four small handles around its mouth; 5 1/2 high, max diameter 8, diameter of mouth 51/2. Found with an interment on NORTH COMMON adjacent to the CASTLE. This pot has since been lost. <1>

No further information was obtained upon this site during field investigation. NORTH COMMON extends to PORTLAND CASTLE according to various people consulted. <2>

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 450 (Monograph). SDO150.

'PORTLAND. No certain barrows remain but the site of an urnfield within a mound is known. A burial found with a four-handled biconical jor of Armorican type suggests a possible but unlocated barrow on North Common below Verne Hill (Arch. J. XXV (1868), 50 (fig.); Archaeologia XLIII (1871), 339 and fig. 19; L'anthropologie LV (1951), 532-5).'

<1> Oliver, V L, 1923, Pre-Roman and Roman Occupation of the Weymouth District. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, p38 (Article in serial). SWX1763.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 08-JUN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451666 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Apr 30 2025 1:55PM