Monument record MDO7480 - Romano-British occupation and shale working site, Corfe Castle

An Early Iron Age and Romano-British occupation site near Kingston Plantation, Corfe Castle, 300 yards west of the road to Chapman's Pool

Debris occurs over an area of about an acre, but the greatest concentration of Romano-British finds comes from a spot some 140 yards south of the nothern wall of the field and 50 yards west of the eastern wall, where some blocks of limestone may indiacate a building. <1> SY 953788 Kingston Plantation. Occupation debris including Kimmeridge shale waste comes from ploughing on the palteau S of the plantation. The material includes Samian ware, coarse ware of Iron Age `C' or early Roman date and some of the 3rd or 4th century, shale armlet lathe-cores of Calkin's class `C' a few Iron Age `A' sherds andrejects from a hand-cut shale armlet industry. <2> An apparently Romano-British bronze bracelet consisting of a 5 inch long piece of thin and much bent strip of bronze decorated with oblique knurling was found by P A Brown, circa 1975, on the Kingston Plantation occupation site (see above). <3>

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Oct 11 2023 2:25PM