EDO4111 - Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester; evaluation (Trench H)

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 Mt. 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 H, sited in the centre of the site, produced a series of shallow ditches or gullies running N-S and E-W and similar in form to those in Trench E. The pottery suggested Roman and medieval dates for these features, although one may be of early prehistoric date.