SDO9818 - 'Proceedings at the meetings of the Archaeological Institute: January 7, 1859' Archaeological Journal

“The Rev. C. W. Bingham communicated the following notices of Roman remains recently discovered at Dorchester Castle, as related by Mr. Lawrance, Governor of the County Prison, who had shown most praiseworthy care in the preservation of these ancient vestiges. A plan of the building thus brought to light, drawings of pottery, personal ornaments, remains of fresco-painting and of mosaics, were produced by Mr Bingham in illustration of this account.” The description that follows is largely based on Lawrance’s manuscript account (in DCM), with minor points of difference. It is accompanied by a plan of the walls of the buildings discovered during the digging of a grave for James Seal at the Prison in August 1858.