C.J.S. Green observed the digging of three trenches in the gardens SW of Lloyds bank, 2 High West Street, Dorchester between 1963 and 1965.
The excavations exposed a flint gravelled surface at a depth of 0.75m below the surface. This gravel surface was laid on a layer of chalk rubble overlying brown loam of probable natural origin above the chalk. This gravel may have been continuous with a similar surface seen in Cornhill (EDO4382).
Sources/Archives (2)
--- SDO150
Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3. 564-6, no.196.
--- SDO9713
Excavation archive: Sparey Green, C J. 1963-1965. 2 High West Street, Dorchester.
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