SDO9815 - 'Further Discoveries of Roman Remains' Dorset County Chronicle

"FURTHER DISCOVERIES OF ROMAN REMAINS. – In clearing out the foundations for the site of the County Police Barracks, intermediate to the South-Western Railway Station and the Roman Amphitheatre, known as Malmbury Rings, Mr. Gregory, the builder, came on Monday upon five human skeletons deposited together in an upright position in a pit, with three cinerary urns superimposed upon them. The urns, two of which had necks and one was cup-shaped, were broken by the workmen during the excavation, but have been pieced together again by Mr. Gregory for presentation to the County Museum. The handle which had been attached to one of the former was broken off and lost. The site was doubtless that of a Roman cemetery. The preservation of the teeth in the heads of the skeletons was remarkable as usual. Probably they were those of malefactors slain in the cruel sports of the circus, to whom cinerary funeral honours were not accorded."