EDO4528 - Poundbury Farm Track, Bradford Peverell; watching brief 1990

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. 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 is probably part of the same settlement found in Fordington Bottom during excavations in advance of the Dorchester By-pass Western Link road.