RELICS OF STONE AGE
BRITAIN’S EARLY DAYS. FINDS AT DORCHESTER. LONDON. November 14. An Adelaide scientist, Professor Gurr, will leave for Australia next month with a bagful of early British flint arrow and hammer heads find broken Roman pottery, which he personally unearthed on the site of' an old Roman camp at Dorchester. Professor Gurr says he accompanied Mr. Prideaux, an archaeological expert, to- a garden in Dorchester, in which the skeleton of a full-grown man, who had been 70in. in height, had been uncovered at a depth of 4ft. A number of blue beads found near the neck suggested a necklace. Mr. Prideaux says that he believed the skeleton to be that of a Roman soldier who had been interred about the year 400 A.D., Just before the Roman evacuation.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2308, 28 November 1925, Page 7
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