Monument record MDO18360 - South Walks Tunnel Sewer; Roman pits and well

Two Roman pits and one probable well were found during the construction of a sewer along Charles Street from South Walks, Dorchester in 1990. The two pits lay to the north of the NE-SW Roman road. The possible well was found cutting through the possible flint wall footing of the early unfinished Roman town wall.

Two Roman pits and one probable well were found during the construction of a sewer along Charles Street from South Walks, Dorchester in 1990. The two pits were probably oval or circular in shape and were only partially within the trench. They had steep, near vertical sides and were not bottomed. They cut through a thin, probably early Roman soil level, but were not closely dated. One of these pits produced the lower stone of a Greensand rotary quern.

A possible Roman well was found cutting through the possible flint wall footing of the early unfinished Roman town wall. It was circular in plan and was over 6m deep.

Wessex Archaeology, 1990, South Walks Tunnel Sewer, Dorchester (Excavation archive). SDO10025.

Davies S M and Farwell D E, 1990, South Walks Tunnel Sewer, Dorchester, Dorset: A Report on the Archaeological Watching-brief (Unpublished document). SDO182.

<1> Davies, S M and Farwell, D E, 1990, South Walks Tunnel Sewer, Dorchester: Archaeological Watching-Brief. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 51-6 (Article in serial). SDO9573.

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