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On 2 August 2019, Hinton St Mary villagers and the Chair of the Dorset Unitary Authority [17] were told at a closed-door meeting with the British Museum that the mosaic would be partially returned to the Dorset County Museum. However, the head of Christ would not be returned, as the original would be "loaned to museums worldwide".
Dorset in the Civil War 1625-1665. Dorset Books. Hilliam, David (2010). The Little Book of Dorset. Stroud, Glos.: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5704-8. Hutchins, John, 1741 (First Edition). History and Antiquities of Dorset. Third edition reprinted 1973. Kerr, Barbara, 1968. Bound to the Soil: A Social History of Dorset 1750-1918. London ...
The Durotriges were one of the Celtic tribes living in Britain prior to the Roman invasion.The tribe lived in modern Dorset, south Wiltshire, south Somerset and Devon east of the River Axe and the discovery of an Iron Age hoard in 2009 at Shalfleet, Isle of Wight gives evidence that they may also have lived in the western half of the island.
Jordan Hill Roman Temple is a Romano-Celtic temple and Roman ruin situated on Jordan Hill above Bowleaze Cove in the eastern suburbs of Weymouth in Dorset, England.Original amateur archaeological excavations on the site were carried out by J. Medhurst in 1843-6.
Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England.It was in the territory of the Durotriges.In the Roman era a temple was located immediately west of the fort, and there was a Romano-British town known as Vindocladia a short distance to the south-west.
The earthworks cover an area of about 10 acres (4.0 ha), of which about 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) are inside the ramparts. [ 2 ] The fort was occupied by the Celtic Durotriges tribe, but when the Romans invaded in AD 43, the second Augustian legion of Vespasian took the fort quickly with little struggle before moving on to Maiden Castle.
A number of Romano-British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck, including a villa at Bucknowle Farm near Corfe Castle, excavated between 1976 and 1991. [8] The Kimmeridge shale of the isle was worked extensively during the Roman period, into jewellery, decorative panels and furniture. [9]
Military history of Dorset (7 C, 13 P) Monasteries in Dorset (27 P) P. Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset (historic) (11 P) W. History of Weymouth, Dorset (2 C, 17 P)