Monument record MDO3626 - Romano-British occupation, Bryanston School

At least one (possibly as many as three) Romano-British pits seen during clearance for an extension to the Music School at Bryanston School in 1958. The one pit identified with any certainty was half-excavated, and produced Roman pottery including a piece of (residual?) Samian Ware, but probably as a group dating the feature to the 4th century AD. A bronze bow-brooch was also recovered, along with some burnt bone. The site report notes that a coin of Constantine was also previously found in the vicinity.

ST 870075: Romano British inhumation burial and occupation debris were found in 1958 at Bryanston School at about 300ft above OD. on a chalk ridge. The burial, an extended adult male in a shallow grave, had been deposited in a wooden coffin. Some 16ft to the North a circular pit, 5 1/2ft deep and 4 1/2ft in diameter, contained chalk rubble, flints, 2nd century to 4th-century pottery including a samian sherd, and a bronze brooch. There were traces of another pit to the southeast. Previously other coins and pottery had been found in the area. <1> ST 870075. Indications of Romano-British settlement. <2>

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