SDO9765 - 'The Excavations at Colliton Park, Dorchester: Second Interim report; Excavations carried out in the season of 1938' Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
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Type | Article in serial |
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Title | 'The Excavations at Colliton Park, Dorchester: Second Interim report; Excavations carried out in the season of 1938' Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society |
Author/Originator | Drew, C D and Collingwood Selby, K C |
Date/Year | 1938 |
Dorset Natural History and Archaeology Society | Proceedings |
Abstract/Summary
Interim report on the 1938 season describes the results from each building. Building 1: an extensive pit complex was found to the west of Room 18, including a possible lime kiln. Building 2: small building of two rooms. Building 3: a range of three rooms with corridor, with an oven in Room 1, two pits in Room 2 and numerous late pits in Room 2 and the corridor, including one with decorated glass bowl. Building 3a: small building with chalk floor and oven. Several pits and a well in the vicinity. Building 4: small building of three rooms and central porch. Building 5: fragmentary building remains. Building 6:fragmentary building remains with two tessellated floors. Building 7: fragmentary remains, may not have been a roofed structure. Smith’s hearth found just north of Building 3. Three cuttings through rampart. Line of one street investigated. Large water conduit discovered beneath road in some cuttings.
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Description
Plans, photos, section drawings. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, vol. 60, pp 51-65.
Location
Referenced Monuments (18)
- MDO18603 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Early Roman Pit W (Monument)
- MDO18613 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Infant burial 6 (Monument)
- MDO18602 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Lime Kiln (Monument)
- MDO18610 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Roman Building II (Monument)
- MDO18611 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Roman Building III (Monument)
- MDO18612 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Roman Building IV (Monument)
- MDO18614 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Roman Building V (Monument)
- MDO18615 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Roman Building VI (Monument)
- MDO18616 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Roman Building VII (Monument)
- MDO18601 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Roman Conduit (Monument)
- MDO18600 Colliton Park, Dorchester; Roman Street (Monument)
- MDO18638 Colliton Park; urban farmstead (Monument)
- MDO18639 County Hall; 17th century activity (Monument)
- MDO18635 County Hall; ditched enclosure to the east of street 575 (Monument)
- MDO18631 County Hall; Oven 499 (Monument)
- MDO18641 Fire Headquarters, County Hall, Colliton Park; Roman building 250 (Monument)
- MDO18640 Fire Headquarters, County Hall, Colliton Park; Roman quarry pits (Monument)
- MDO18617 Roman defences at Colliton Park, Dorchester (Monument)
Referenced Events (1)
- EDO4434 Colliton Park, Dorchester; excavations 1937 to 1939
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