SDO9852 - Poundbury Farm Track, Dorchester, Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society.

A watching brief was carried out by Wessex Archaeology during the construction of a farm track from the Bridport Road northwards to an existing track under the Western Link in May 1990. The construction involved topsoil stripping and levelling across two pasture fields in an area adjacent to the Roman Aqueduct and two sites of Bronze Age and Roman date. The track cut through undated lynchets 100m and 125m north of the Bridport Road. At the northern end of the track, at the valley bottom immediately adjacent to the Western Link Road, there was a substantial build up of colluvium. Into this were cut the footings of a Roman building, and floor and yard surfaces which produced a small quantity of of Roman pottery, animal bone and a 2nd-3rd century copper alloy penanular brooch. This Roman settlement is probably the same one previously excavated along the line of the Western Link.