SDO9868 - Roman Burials, Casterbridge Road, Dorchester. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society.

Work for the foundations of an extension to 3 Casterbridge Road (SY 70538990) revealed the remains of at least two inhumations. Two extended adult skeletons, aligned N-S, were discovered in shallow chalk cut graves. There were no grave goods but fragmnets of Durotrigian pottery was associated with them. These burials add to the five recorded since 1951 on the Came View Estate (RCHM, Dorset, II (1970), 578). The excavations also revealed a section of trench or fissure c.2m deep and c. 3m wide, running E-W. a similar feature is recorded nearby at SY 70548987, 70578988, 70498986, and again at 70658984, where a worn sestertius of Antoninus Pius was said to have been found in it. Several small fragments of black burnished ware were recovered from the new section.