ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN
Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum
James Medhurst and Jordan Hill, Weymouth
Jordan Hill, from wikipedia entry on site
This page gives information about the largest single other collection of Engish archaeological material in the founding collection. It is a large collection of items excavated from Jordan Hill, near Weymouth in the 1840s by James Medhurst. Pitt Rivers acquired these in 1879, probably at auction. The remainder of the English archaeological items in the founding collection at Oxford are miscellaneous items of widely varying kinds from a variety of sources, often obtained by Pitt Rivers from auctions or colleagues.
Jordan Hill site
Today all that can be seen at this Dorset site are the foundations of a 4th century Romano-Celtic temple, 2 miles NE of Weymouth, near Overcombe, off A353, near an area called Furzy Cliff. The location is sometimes given as Jordan Hill, Preston. The site is currently managed by English Heritage. An image of how the site looks now can be found on this link, as well as how to find it. Grid reference is SY701820. There is a short wikipedia entry for the site.
James Medhurst
James A.S. Medhurst probably lived at 9 Chesterfield Place, Melcombe Regis (he is listed as being at those premises in the 1859 Post Office Directory). The same source lists him as a Tunbridge Ware Manufacturer. Tunbridge Ware was a form of decoratively inlaid woodworking, most often found in boxes, where small strips of wood were glued together, then cut into veneer with a fine saw, to produce intricate patterns. The style was first developed in Tunbridge Wells, and examples can be seen in the museum there [see here for more information]. The ware was popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Melcombe Regis is an area of Weymouth situated on the north shore of the harbour.
Medhurst appears to have been a keen archaeologist. According to several websites he carried out several excavations in the Jordan Hill area during the 1840s. Besides the Roman villa and temple he found there, he also found a large cemetery. According to the same sources, Medhurst left Dorset some years after his excavations and took his collection of finds with him. It was later sold (in 1879, when Pitt Rivers obtained his share) and many other of the items were purchased and given to Dorset County Museums where they are still held.
An old website, now defunct, for Weymouth Museum stated:
Weymouth has a rich and fascinating history going back at least four thousand years. Remarkable legacies of the past are the remains of the Bronze Age burial mounds dotted all along the Ridgeway on the northern boundaries of the town and the two Iron Age Hill Forts on its eastern and western flank. In addition there are a number of sites that have no surface remains, some were excavated in the nineteenth century. One of the most important complexes being Jordan Hill Romano-Celtic Temple and adjoining cemetery. This site was first excavated in 1845-6 by J.A.S. Medhurst, no plans or accounts survive of this work. The only description depends on the vagaries of contemporary antiquarians. After Medhurst's death in 1879, the Jordan Hill material was sold at Sotherbys in 1879 and other artefacts were sold by the Bristol booksellers C.T. Jefferies and Sons in 1893. Late Roman Temple on Jordan Hill famous for its votive shaft excavated by Medhurst in 1843 and re-excavated by C.D. Drew in 1931-2. The plan of the building was of square sections forty by forty feet, perhaps with an outer wall. In a corner a fifteen foot votive shaft with thirteen or fourteen layers of stone, tile and ash was excavated. Each layer consisted of small bones (mostly birds) and coins. There was also ironwork and pottery at the bottom and halfway up the shaft. At least one of the coins found was of the reign of Theodosius. At Preston a Romano British Villa was excavated by Medhurst in 1844 and again in 1852. In 1872 T. Baker excavated parts of the villa and again further excavations were undertaken by C.D. Drew in 1932. A fine mosaic pavement presumably of the Cirencester School came to light and a bathhouse and furnace were uncovered. The finds included carved Kimmeridge shale, possibly from a piece of furniture. Samian pottery, black burnished flanged fragments, New Forest wares, stone and earthenware tiles, tessera, wall plaster and coins of Corausius and Constans. At Furzey Cliff Bowleaze Cove Medhurst claims to have observed what he believed to be a quay, walls and ditches have appeared in the cliff face. Further excavations were carried out by B. Putnam in 1969.
Another site, lists one of Medhurst's finds, now in Dorset County Museums, a Purbeck marble column capital, found at Jordan Hill temple. Dorset County Museums also holds manuscripts and notes and drawings of the sites according to English Heritage.
Items from the founding collection from Medhurst's excavations at Jordan Hill
All of the items appear to have been obtained by Pitt Rivers at the same time, on 2 July 1879. It seems likely that this was the auction at Sothebys, referred to in several sources, that took place after Medhurst's death.
There are at least 94 artefacts from Medhurst in the founding collection. The artefacts have a copy of a label used in the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester transcribed into their documentation:
Dorset. Jordan Hill Preston near Weymouth. The neighbourhood of Weymouth supported a considerable population in Early Iron Age and Roman times and this was particularly the case in the pleasant valley of the little Jordan stream. From 1845-46 Mr Medhurst carried out various excavations on and near Jordan Hill. Besides a Roman Villa and a Roman temple he found a large cemetery which began to be used about 1 AD when the Iron Age culture came to Dorset during the Roman occupation. Medhurst's excavations were all recorded but it is clear that the burials were inhumations and not cremations, and that the pottery which dates the site was in real association with the burials. Some 80 skeletons were found and only part of the cemetery was exposed. Some of the bodies had been buried in graves lined with stone slabs, others had evidently been laid in wooden coffins of which the iron nails alone remained. The pottery is mostly the characteristic black 'bead-rim' ware of Belgic times but there are also types imported from the continent and native types showing Roman influence which became increasingly stronger after the Roman conquest. Mr Medhurst left Dorset some years after his excavation taking his collection with him. It was later sold, but fortunately, a considerable part was restored to its own country through the generosity of Col JR Bramble and Mr Charles Warne.
It is not recorded why Pitt Rivers chose to buy the items he did at the Medhurst sale, indeed the totality of the Medhurst items sold has not yet been recorded online (copies of the Sothebys records for sales are held at the Bodleian Library).
The Medhurst items are associated with a fraction number X/ 9680. This is a numbering system used whilst the artefacts were in the South Kensington Museum (between 1879 and 1884 when they were transferred to Oxford). The number is used for all the items delivered to South Kensington Museum on 2 July 1879. It is possible that the objects were delivered straight from Sothebys to the Museum.
Here are the Pitt Rivers Museum's accession record entries transcribed for the Medhurst items. Note that not all of the artefacts' documentation says that they are from Medhurst collection, but it seems clear that they are, others merely say Weymouth so may be from other Medhurst excavations in the area:
1. 1884.2.1 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.2.1-35 - Locks and Keys. Late Celtic sickle-like iron key Jordan Hill, Weymouth Medhurst coll 82/ 9680
2. 1884.2.2 Late Celtic sickle-like iron key Jordan Hill, Weymouth Medhurst coll 83/ 9680
3. 1884.5.35 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.5.1-75 - Spoons. Small silver-plated copper spoon Jordan Hill Weymouth 1879 59/ 9680
4. 1884.5.44 Small round bronze spoon with long handle Jordan Hill Weymouth 60/ 9680
5. 1884.5.49 Bowl of an iron spoon Jordan Hill Weymouth 58/ 9680
6. 1884.37.14 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.37.1-113 Pottery Ancient Wheel-made. Small cup or bowl with double convex outline and foot Roman Samian Jordan Hill Weymouth 115/ 9680
7. 1884.37.15 Smaller similar vessel [to 1884.37.14], the upper part straighter and out-slanting, smaller foot Roman Samian Jordan Hill Weymouth (?Sale no [103]) 2.7.79 [Drawing] 114/ 9680
8. 1884.37.16 Saucer with down-curved lip surface, flattened with [Drawing] Roman Samian Jordan Hill Weymouth (?Sale no [103]) 2.7.79 116/ 9680
9. 1884.37.23 Footed dish with cylindrical mouth, sloping in below to foot 2.7.79 Jordan Hill Weymouth 117/ 9680
10. 1884.37.54 Dark-grey-black (mended) urn with streaked chevron band design ?R-British [Romano-British] Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 105 or 108/ 9680
11. 1884.37.55 Urn of fine hard iron-grey ware, globular at the top, tapering beneath to the foot: with striated surface ?R-British Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [92 ?Sale No] 100/ 9680
12. 1884.37.56 Urn bowl of same ware, with area roughened with reticulated scratches ?R-British 2.7.79 Jordan Hill Weymouth [Drawing] 101/ 9680
13. 1884.37.57 Similar grey ware bowl [to 1884.37.56], with rim and foot, containing bone fragments (one with green stain) and charcoal ?R-British Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] and Bone fragments from urn. [12 separate bones, possibly from a child. (Jennifer Kern 03/09/2007)] 102 / 9680
14. 1884.37.58 Smaller bowl of same globular form, greyer [than 1884.37.57] ?R-British Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 104/ 9680
15. 1884.37.59 Similar bowl [to 1884.37.58], with wider mouth: with rim ?R-British Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 103/ 9680
16. 1884.46.14 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.46.1-27 Weaving - Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving, a curved fragment Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 5/ 9680
17. 1884.46.15 Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving, large with line pattern (zigzag) in relief Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 1/ 9680
18. 1884.46.16 Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving, rough surface, teeth broken Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 4/ 9680
19. 1884.46.17 Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving, small with incised triangular designs and oxidised Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 8/ 9680
20. 1884.46.18 Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving, smooth, toothed part missing, ring ornament on handle Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 2/ 9680
21. 1884.46.19 Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving, smooth, teeth broken? Portland Dorset 2.7.79 [Drawing] 7/ 9680
22. 1884.50.2 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.50.1-36 Horse-shoes etc - Iron horse-shoe of Celtic form (sinuous ridge) Jordan Hill Weymouth Found by Medhurst 81/ 9680
23. 1884.76.137 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.76.1-147 Personal Ornaments Bead-Work of Glass Shell and Beads - Large bead of glass and stone, blue, globular Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 71/ 9680
24. 1884.76.138 Large bead of glass and stone, black, rosette Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 71/ 9680
25. 1884.79.56 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.79.1-163 Personal ornaments Penannular and Ring Brooches - 1884.79.28-140 Fibulae - Similar bronze fibula [to 1884.79.55] (damaged) with ridged, embossed shield-like disc and central boss Roman Jordan Hill Weymouth ?2.7.79 [Drawing] 63/ 9680
26. 1884.79.57 Similar bronze fibula [to 1884.79.56], T hinge missing, expanding tail with central line Roman Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 62/ 9680
27. 1884.82.111 Accession Book V entry - 1884.82.1-363 Personal Ornaments ... Metal bangles bracelets anklets - Much rusted iron bracelet with overlapping ends ?Roman Jordan Hill nr Weymouth Dorset 2.7.79 67/ 9680
28. 1884.82.112 Small bronze bracelet with overlapping ends Roman Medhurst coll [Drawing]
29. 1884.105.3 Accession Book V entry - 1884.105.1-39 Needles and Cases - Small bone needle with large round eye in expanded arm (broken) Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 41/ 9680
30. 1884.105.4 Small (but large fragment of) bone needle with eye in evenly expanded end, more oval eye Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 49/ 9680 [sic - seems from matching other source known as the green book entry this is more likely to be 40/ 9680]
31. 1884.105.5 Large bone needle or awl of similar type [to 1884.105.4] with pointed top Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing] 39/ 9680
32. 1884.105.6 Large ?bone needle with oblong eye (top end broken square) Weymouth 2.7.79 42/ 9680
33. 1884.117.10 Accession Book V entry - 1884.117.1-35 Miscellaneous - Ancient bronze chain (2 lengths on a ring) Jordan Hill Weymouth Dorset 2.7.79 66/ 9680
34. 1884.118.144 Accession Book V entry - 1884.118.1-273 Implements Bone Ivory Horn - Small awl of white worked bone Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll [Drawing] 24/ 9680
35. 1884.118.145 Large brownish awl with condyle handle Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll [Drawing] 20/ 9680
36. 1884.118.146 Broad-topped stout awl with shaped point (hollow, broken at top) Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll (3-20)
37. 1884.118.147 Stout flat triangular awl made of a slice of bone Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll
38. 1884.118.148 Tubular length of bone with ends cut square, one with three parallel incisions near rim Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 56 a / 9680
39. 1884.118.149 Blade implement with shaped semi-cylindrical handle Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll [Drawing] ? 12/ 9680
40. 1884.118.150 Broken implement (?knife) with shaped handle (base remaining) at one end Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll [Drawing] 50/ 9680
41. 1884.118.151 Small bone awl of ?bird bone (broken tip) Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 24/ 9680
42. 1884.118.152 Larger, bladed awl with broken tip, with rounded oval head Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll [Drawing] 43/ 9680
43. 884.118.153 Stout awl of hollow bone, squared off at the top Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 37/ 9680
44. 1884.118.154 Stout awl with condyle top to handle and broken point (corroded surface) Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll ? 25/ 9680 or 75/ 9680
45. 1884.118.155 Stout awl, hollow, smooth and fresh-looking, with squared top to handle, perforated below it Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 16/ 9680
46. 1884.118.156 Awl of similar shape to X above [1884.118.154], with broken tip (partly orange coloured) Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 23/ 9680
47. 1884.118.157 Awl of hollow bone, top broken away Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll ?18/ 9680 or 19/ 9680
48. 1884.118.158 Awl made of a thick piece of bone worked down, chalky surface, broken condyle top Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 26/ 9680
49. 1884.118.159 Hollow awl, brownish colour condyle, butt cut off at the top Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 17/ 9680
50. 1884.118.160 Similar stout grey awl [to 1884.118.159], smaller, broken at the top above a perforation, flat point Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll
51. 1884.118.161 Similar stout white awl [to 1884.118.160], top broken, of even width all down Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 22/ 9680
52. 1884.118.162 Similar ?awl [to 1884.118.161] of small long bone rubbed down and broken, a duct to a chisel edge Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll ? 38/ 9680
53. 1884.118.163 Similar yellow and orange ?awl [to 1884.118.162], broken shank expanded at the open top and pierced transversely Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 28/ 9680
54. 1884.118.164 Similar grey-brown awl [to 1884.118.163] with short point and transverse hole at run of top [sic] Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll ? 33/ 9680
55. 1884.118.165 Similar grey-brown awl [to 1884.118.164] with broken shank, flat articular top Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 35/ 9680
56. 1884.118.166 Similar yellowish awl [to 1884.118.165], broken, open at top with transverse hole Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 34/ 9680
57. 1884.118.167 Slender white awl or blade of same type [as 1884.118.166] broken, open top broken Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 31/ 9680
58. 1884.118.168 Yellowish implement cut square at the top blade, broken (... [sic - illegible] of incipient holes) Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 29/ 9680
59. 1884.118.169 Upper end of a stout short broken ?awl with open top transversely perforated Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 32/ 9680
60. 1884.118.170 Slender tapering awl, open top transversely pierced, shank broken Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 15/ 9680
61. 1884.118.171 Awl made of a short curved antler tip (chalky and white) Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 47/ 9680
62. 1884.118.172 Awl made of a large curved round-topped tooth Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll ? 48/ 9680
63. 1884.118.173 Awl made of longish tusk-like curved antler, tip sawn through Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 50/ 9680
64. 1884.118.174 Long curved antler tip, chalky surface Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll ? 39/ 9680
65. 1884.118.175 Large stout peg (?awl) of antler pierced through near broken tip Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 55/ 9680
66. 1884.118.176 Weaving comb with curved handle and 10 prongs (6 broken) Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 9/ 9680
67. 1884.118.177 Length of antler perforated with broken ends Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 51/ 9680
68. 1884.118.178 Piece of white bird bone with condyle, damaged both ends Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll 54/ 9680
69. 1884.118.179 Piece of small deer antler with root Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll [Drawing]
70. 1884.119.584 Accession Book V entry - 1884.119.1-631 Implements Copper Bronze (copper specified when known) - Vase with flat flared mouth (rim damaged), concave-sided body and rounded top below mouth Medhurst coll Weymouth [Drawing] 176/ 9680
71. 1884.119.612 Penannular ?bracelet of truncated conical form, carved with ring and slot and ring and hole ornament ?Roman [Drawing]
72. 1884.119.613 Hollow rectangular bar (damaged and corroded) (?furniture fitting) with cylindrical terminal socket on top and lug at the end below Roman Medhurst coll 2.7.79 [Drawing] 174/ 9680
73. 1884.119.614 Similar object [to 1884.119.613] but with rectangular socket and part of hinge at the other end on opposite face Roman Medhurst coll 2.7.79 [Drawing] 175/ 9680
74. 1884.119.615 Similar L-shaped object [to 1884.119.614], a combination of the above [1884.119.613-4], cylindrical socket at junction of bars and quadrangular sockets at the end of one bar parallel to the other Roman Medhurst coll 2.7.79 [Drawing] 173/ 9680
75. 1884.119.616 Cylindrical ring of thick metal with a longitudinally set rectangular flange inside Roman Medhurst coll 2.7.79 [Drawing] 91/ 9680
76. 1884.119.617 Similar ring [to 1884.119.616] with triangular flange, closed at one end Roman Medhurst coll 2.7.79 178/ 9680
77. 1884.119.618 Rectangular blue green ornamental bedstead foot with inlaid floral designs on the closed front (back open) Roman Medhurst coll 2.7.79 [Drawing] ?179/ 9680
78. 1884.119.619 Similar object, much corroded and distorted with similar design [to 1884.119.618] (blue evidently colour applied to surface) Roman Medhurst coll 2.7.79
79. 1884.119.620 Similar small clean surfaced object [to 1884.119.619] without floral design, dark green blue colour Roman Medhurst coll 2.7.79 181/ 9680
80. 1884.119.634 Hollow cylinder bronze top, broken on slightly conical circular base Weymouth Roman piece missing at rim Medhurst coll 2.7.79 [80/ 9680]
81. 1884.120.13 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.120.1-82 Iron Implements. Note - Most of these implements are black-brown completely oxidised and encrusted 1884.120.6-31 Knives Axe-heads - Small axehead with similarly expanded blade [to 1884.121.12] but with upper side curved to the ring socket, a piece of wood is encrusted on the side of the socket (c 12 cm) Medhurst coll Weymouth Jordan Hill [Drawing]
82. 1884.120.34 Adze with narrow straight-sided expanded blade slanting at an angle of 60� with cylindrical socket, long quadrangular hammer butt, length of ?worn shaft in situ (total length 25 cm) Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawings]
83. 1884.120.45 1884.120.35-64 Spear heads (socketed) - Spear head with narrow small leaf blade and long narrow (damaged) socket Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing]77/ 9680
84. 1884.120.47 Small fluted ring with nodule of gravel and ?iron fragments on it (diam 6 cm) Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing]
85. 1884.120.48 Small leaf-shaped spear head with spreading (damaged) socket (c 13 cm) Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 [Drawing]
86. 1884.121.4 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.121.1-28 Iron Implements Swords Knives Daggers - Remains of lower end of a blade with concave base and short cusped tang and narrow oval ornamental collar band Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth [Drawing] [78/ 9680]
87. 1884.121.12 Short broad straight-backed knife blade with triangular point and tang (back bent tip) in line with the back (17 1/2 cm) Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth [Drawing]
88. 1884.121.13 Knife (blade base only) with long split-socketed neck Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth [Drawing]
89. 1884.121.29 1884.121.29-31 Miscellaneous iron objects - Tanged fork or grapple with 3 hooked teeth (14 1/2 cm) Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth [Drawing]
90. 1884.121.30 Large pin with flat round head (10 3/4 cm)(indications of 'axle pin' in head?) Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth [Drawing]
91. 1884.121.31 Large iron hook with ring in the eye (14 cm) Medhurst coll Jordan Hill Weymouth [Drawing]
92. 1884.140.485 Accession Book VIII entry - Bone pin or awl Jordan Hill Weymouth 2.7.79 Medhurst coll. This object was found unentered in 2006. The object had '18 / 9680' written on it and was therefore matched with the delivery catalogue entry which had previously had only one object matched to it. 18/ 9680
Delivery Catalogue I entry - Seals Tools and various objects [1 of] 4 bone points (Weymouth) 18/ 9680 15 [?Screen] 163
93. 1884.140.557 Written on object - Accession Book PR VIII entry - Point made from ?pig's tooth. Found unentered in 2004. Jordan Hill Weymouth Medhurst P.R.coll. 45/ 9680 2.7.79
94. 1884.140.563-565 Accession book VIII entry - Two bronze rings and a perforated object of ?lead. Found unentered in 2004
'Green book' entry - South Kensington Receipts, 2 July 1879 - 1 bronze chain and 3 fragment 66/ 9680
In addition, the following artefacts are likely to be in the Museum though they have not been located and accessioned to date:
Delivery Catalogue I entry - Old English pottery etc Bowl Jordan Hill 105/ 9680 or Old English pottery etc Bowl contg bones Jordan Hill 108/ 9680 10 Parcel 19 Cases 20 21 [note it is likely that one of these entries is matched to 1884.32.54]
Delivery Catalogue I entry - Old English pottery etc Bowl Jordan Hill 105/ 9680 72 Case 25
Delivery Catalogue I entry - Seals Tools and various objects [1 of] 4 bone points (Weymouth) 18/ 9680 15 [?Screen] 163
Further Reading
The finds were published in the following publications (not all of these are necessarily Medhurst's excavations on the site):
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 51/1929/158-182
Romano-British remains, parts 1 and 2 edited by George Laurence Gomme The gentleman's magazine library I/1844/185-186
The Antiquarial and Architectural Yearbook /1844/102-104
Virtual Catalogue Entry to support E.I. Migration HUTCHINS,J./1861-1874/THE HISTORY OF DORSET/2:838
RCHM (Dorset inventory) p. 616 (same in 1970 ed., no.445)
Warne 1872, Ancient Dorset 225-229
http://www.palmyra.uklinux.net/pur-paving.html
http://www.palmyra.uklinux.net/pur-architectural.htm
http://dorset-ancestors.com/?p=1693
Notes
[1] Lieutenant-Colonel James R. Bramble F.S.A. of Weston-super-Mare, he appears to have been the Honorary Treasurer of a Bristol Antiquarian or Archaeological Society, though it is unclear which one see cliftonantiquarian.co.uk/CAC_docs/Index.pdf
[2] Charles Warne F.S.A. (1801-1887) see here. He was an antiquarian from Dorset, who excavated many tumuli in the county before moving to London.