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An Early Romano-British Kiln at Corfe Mullen, Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

J. Bernard Calkin
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In SE. Dorset a section of Roman road runs from Hamworthy on Poole Harbour to Badbury Rings, passing near the present village of Corfe Mullen just before it dips into the Stour valley. It has been known for several years, from discoveries in the Southern Railway's ballast pit, that a Romano-British settlement existed at this spot. The finds comprise pottery ranging from bead-rim to New Forest wares, as well as a storage-pit containing grain, on which Sir R. H. Biffen reported to the writer in 1929 as follows: ‘The bulk is wheat similar to that from the Iron Age sites at Fovant and Meare. But grains of oat are also present.’

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1935 , pp. 42 - 55
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1935

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page 44 note 1 Figures in square brackets show estimated number of vessels represented.

page 53 note 1 The workmen also found one example in Pit 4.

page 54 note 1 Another pit, excavated by the writer in 1930, contained 1 bead rim of each type, a countersunk handle, and other native wares.

page 55 note 1 See Hawkes, and Dunning, in Archaeological Journal, lxxxvii, 286Google Scholar.

page 55 note 2 Pottery found at Silchester, p. 47.