Monument record MDO1869 - Roman settlement near Moigne Court, Owermoigne

Evidence of a Romano-British settlement was found during excavation of a Tudor farmstead in the early 1970s. The excavators reported that pottery of 3rd and 4th century date and pieces of worked Kimmeridge shale were common on the site, and suggested that the settlement was associated with a high-status building, possibly a villa, somewhere in the vicinity. Building debris including painted wall plaster and slate roof tiles to level the site of the Tudor buildings.

Earthworks To the east of the moat, "extensive remains of foundations" were discovered according to Hutchins, and beyond these lay a series of enclosures surrounded by a ditch and for a much of the perimeter by an inner bank now 1 metre high. Excavation of this enclosure area by D J Viner and P R Walker in 1971-73 … Large quantities of 3rd and 4th century pottery and some building debris were found in a 'sondage' (deep trench to investigate stratigraphy) about 100 metres south east of the yeoman farmer's house, and suggested that a substantial structure, possibly a villa, stood in this part of the field. Further evidence of Romano-British material was found sealed beneath the floor of the yeoman farmer's house and included quantities of painted wall plaster, pegged roof-tiles and other building debris; this had apparently been used as packing for the foundations of the yeoman's house in the early 16th century. <1-6> SY 772857. Tudor and 17th century farmstead, and Romano British Settlement. Scheduled. (See illustration for scheduled area). <7> The site of the sixteenth-century yeoman's farmhouse and the Romano-British occupation and possible villa site lie in the field centred SY 772857 to the east of the house. <8> DO 22 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa. <9>

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