SDO10243 - Dorsetshire: it’s Celtic, Roman, Saxon & Danish vestiges

A brief list of antiquities in Dorset indexed by area, period and supposed importance. Remains in the Sherborne area include: ‘Lenthay Green, Tessellated pavement, discovered AD 1836…The pavement was removed, and placed in the Dairy of Sherborne Castle.’ Warne also mentions three roads or dykes in the Sherborne area listed in the ‘Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici’, but remain unidentified. These are: Earna-lea-weg Lyf-dyke Trynd-lea-weg The full reference for the source of these roads and dykes is: Leo, Heinrich. 1852. Treatise on the local nomenclature of the Anglo Saxons, as exhibited in the Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici. Translated by Williams, Benjamin, Lumley, London.