Monument record MDO18972 - Robbed Roman building remains, 50-51a Icen Way, Dorchester

Traces of a Roman building, including a robbed N-S wall and associated with deposits of painted wall plaster, stone rubble, roof tile and 1st-2nd century Roman pottery, were recorded in a trench in Icen Way in 1965.

Christopher Sparey Green recorded the possible remains of a robbed Roman building during the construction of shops at 50-51a Icen Way, Dorchester in 1965. The remains included what may be a robbed wall, running N-S. The robber trench was filled with black soil and limestone rubble. On the east side of the robber trench was a layer of limestone rubble and a layer of plaster and painted plaster rubble overlying a layer of dark soil containing occupation debris, samian and coarse pottery. Beneath this layer further north was a chalky soil containintg sherds of well-made buff or cream ware flagons similar in fabric to the mid-1st century products of the Corfe Mullen kiln, and a sherd of samian form 27 cup. To the south were compacted layers of ash, plaster and clay roof-tile fragments. (1)

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