SDO9631 - 'A Bronze Hanging-Bowl and Model Axe-Head from the Roman Cemetery at Poundbury, Dorchester' Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

Note on the finding of two Romano-British bronze objects in 1943 by Mr. B. Ellis in a wartime trench in the Army Camp on the east side of Poundbury Camp, between the railway line and the river. They comprise a small bronze hanging bowl with hemispherical body in hammered bronze, with hollow bead rim and two ring handles attatched by riveted loops; and a model axe head just 1.1 inches long with flat hammer butt. They were projecting from the side of the war time trench at a depth of about 18 inches. They are most likely to derive from the Roman cemetery there.