EDO3859 - 2 Linden Avenue, Evaluation Trench 6

Terrain Archaeology carried out an evaluation in the garden of 2 Linden Avenue, Dorchester in February 2004. Four small engineering test pits in the northern part of the garden were cleaned and recorded (trenches 1, 4, 5, & 6) and a further two machine-trenches were excavated in the southern part of the site (trenches 2 & 3). Across the site overlying the natural chalk, was a layer of garden soil representing the earlier garden prior to the construction of the present house in the 1960s. Over this were levelling layers of construction debris and soil, part of the landscaping for the present garden. Trench 6 lay in the N part of the garden, south of Trench 4. It measured 1.94m x 1.2m and up to 1.4m deep. The top of the natural chalk lay at a depth of 1.25m (63.15m above OD). A NNW-SSE aligned linear feature found in this trench is likely to represent a post-medieval garden feature, sealed by relatively recent garden soils.