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Site name Allington Avenue/Wareham Road, Dorchester
Site number 120
Burial codes 1002 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1111 1129 1143 1153 1181
100bc-AD43 An unknown number of earth grave inhumations was discovered in railway work c1846. Two associated Class 1 bead-rim bowls survive. Another grave found in 1884 contained three further Durotrigian vessels, all probably pre-Conquest.
Remains/Period Y1
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SY
X coordinate 702
Y coordinate 901
Bibliographic source RCHM 1970, Whimster 1981


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