SDO9705 - Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Dorset: Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

Brief catalogue of archaeological work and discoveries made in Dorset during 1967. Sites mentioned from Dorchester include: The Roman East Rampart at the Gasworks, Icen Way (included in full below); The Site of the West Gate of Dorchester; An Inhumation Burial in the Roman Cemetery at Poundbury. Mr. C.J.S. Green contributes the following note on a recent commercial excavation on the line of the E. rampart of Dorchester. "During the summer of 1965 part of the old gasworks was converted into workshops for the Leeline Carbody Repair Company. Although this entailed little building work it necessitated the clearance of an area 100ft square occupied by the easternmost of the gasometers (centred on 69579060). No remains of ancient occupation were exposed during the demolition and levelling, but along the whole of the E. side where the site abutts the rampart of the Roman town (now Salisbury Walk) a mass of chalk rubble and brown loam at least 4 to 5 ft deep was revealed in section above the natural chalk. This feature, evidently the tail of the rampart, was visible for a distance of 100ft from 69599060 to 69579063