Monument record MDO902 - Roman road from Dorchester to Axminster

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Summary

A Post Office cable trench excavated in the late 1940s across the main road at Chideok, between the Church and the road to Seaton, revealed a section across a cambered road surface of rammed flints at a depth of three to four feet below modern ground level. Another exposure in a drain trench in 1951 showed the cambered Roman metalling to be at least 10 feet wide and at least one and a half feet deep, composed of rammed flints (?Greensand Chert) and beach pebbles.

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  • <1> Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1950. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1949. 71. 61-62.
  • <2> Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1952. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951. 73. 102.

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Location

Grid reference SY 4050 9311 (point) Centred on
Map sheet SY49SW
Civil Parish Chideock; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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  • None recorded

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  • Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 1 034 029

Record last edited

Nov 7 2017 3:09PM

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