EDO4105 - Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester; evaluation (Trench B)

Wessex Archaeology carried out an evaluation of a Site proposed for housing development in November 1984. The development area lies on a gentle ridge between the Roman Town of Durnovaria and Mount Pleasant, 1km SE of the Roman Town, on the south side of Alington Avenue, east of Fordington Farm. A total of nine evaluation trenches were excavated down to chalk bedrock with a 2m toothless bucket. The total area excavated was 800 square metres spread evenly across the 3.46 ha. field. Trench B at the southern end of the site revealed no archaeological features, although a deepening of the soil profile along the southern trench edge indicated that the trench had been sited along the line of a field terrace. The soils overlying the chalk bedrock were at their deepest in this trench, 0.7m.