EDO4481 - Glyde Path Road, Dorchester; excavation 1880
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred SY 69111 90881 (28m by 9m) (2 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SY69SE |
| Civil Parish | Dorchester; Dorset |
| Unitary Authority | Dorset |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Not recorded.
Date
1880
Description
In 1880 the Dorchester antiquarian B A Hogg dug up a dead tree in a garden on Glyde Path Road that was rented by him. He re-discovered a mosaic floor that had been first seen c.1831 when the same tree was initially planted. Hogg excavated the mosaic floor for a length of 4.9m (16ft) (1) (2).
Foundations 0.45m (18ins) thick and 0.6m (2ft) high indicated a range of buildings 4.9m (16ft) wide and over 13m (43ft) long aligned ENE-WSW. A cross wall at the east end formed a small room 4.9m by 2.3m (16ft x 7.5ft) across. Red-painted wall plaster was also noted. A strip of coarse tesselated floor two metres (6.75ft) wide and possibly a corridor of the same building, was traced for four metres (13ft) to outhouses against the prison wall. It was composed of alternating bands of red and white tesserae.
A well 0.75m (30ins) diameter and 0.9m (3ft) was found just to the north of the building and was apparently Roman (3).
This building was covered over and then subsequently excavated again in 1966, prior to development of the site (4).
Sources/Archives (10)
- --- SDO9809 Article in serial: 1880. 'Discovery of a Roman Pavement' Dorset County Chronicle. 3.
- --- SDO10092 Unpublished document: Moule, H J. n. d.. Notes made by Mr H. J. Moule on Roman mosaic floors found in or around Dorchester. 1.
- --- SDO9937 Index: National Monuments Record. NMR Monument Record. SY 69 SE 278.
- --- SDO10181 Index: National Monuments Record. NMR Activity Record. 650870.
- --- SDO10182 Monograph: Cosh, S R and Neal, D S. 2005. Roman Mosaics of Britain. Volume II South-west Britain. 103.
- <1> SDO9439 Bibliographic reference: Moule, H J. 1901. Dorchester Antiquities. 13.
- <2> SDO9552 Bibliographic reference: Moule, H J. 1906. Dorchester Antiquities. 33.
- <3> SDO150 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 568, no. 208a.
- <4> SDO9690 Monograph: Draper, J and Chaplin, C. 1982. Dorchester Excavations Volume 1: Excavations at Wadham House 1968; Dorchester Prison 1970, 1975 and 1978; and Glyde Path Road 1966. 103-110.
- <5> SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650870.
Record last edited
Mar 19 2021 11:48AM