Monument record MWX3616 - Roman domestic and industrial occupation by Jordan Hill, Weymouth

Finds from the cemetery area north and north east of the temple at Jordan Hill include a number of objects, not definitely found with burials in some cases suggesting domestic or industrial occupation.

The RCHM notes that some finds from the area of the cemetery to the N and NE of the temple at Jordan Hill are not necessarily from burial A and that some finds suggest domestic or even industrial use. These finds include, iron spear heads, , saddle and rotary quern-stones, chert and flint balls, a shale armlet and lathe turned armlet cores, a Durotrigian silver coin, three coins of the 3rd and 4th centuries, sherds of New Forest ware and others and pieces resembling salt-boiling briquetage.(1)

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Feb 3 2014 12:18PM