Monument record MDO8096 - Salt boiling site, Worbarrow Bay

Iron Age and probable Romano-British salt boiling site, cist burials.

Hobarrow Bay. An inhumation burial and occupation debris from a salt-boiling industry come from a mound at the cliff edge below the 100ft contour 1/2 mile SSW of South Egliston and about 300 yds SE of the black- stone outcrop of the Kimmeridge Shale at cliff-top in Brandy Bay. The site consists of a mound, some 75ft in diameter and 8ft high; extending from this is a roughly circular dished area of some 120ft diameter. Excavation by Miles to a stated depth of 20 to 30ft revealed pottery, briquetage, objects of iron, shale, bone and horn, animal bones, shells, clinker, and beds of clay, ashes, and burnt shale. A covered stone cist at 5ft contained an inhumation, another at 12ft, below human bones, had ashes and snail shells; a third of shale, and slightly lower, contained shale ash. In the centre at an unspecified depth, a stone wall about 3ft thick, with divisional RELATED FEATURES)

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