Monument record MDO6678 - Burials at Lea Road, Wyke Regis, Weymouth

Four graves were discovered during the digging of a service trench in 1975. A salvage excavation revealed these burials and associated settlement were of Late Iron Age and Romano-British date.

In 1975, during excavations for service trenches west of Lea Road, Wyke Regis, human bones and pottery were discovered by workmen. The disturbed remains of four skeletons were recovered. Two phases of activity in the area of Beachview Close were identified from the unstratified finds and excavated burials. The finds to the south of grave 1 suggested a Romano-British context while the burials themselves suggest an early 1st century AD date based on the pottery associated with graves 1 and 3. S. J Dockrill (0ne of the excavators noted in his report that grave 3 exhibited the late Iron Age Durotrigian characteristic of Burial upon the right hand side. And also that grave 3b seemed later than 3a, disturbing the stone cist and bones of the earlier burial. (1)

Hunt, A M, 1976, Archaeological Notes and News 1976: Wyke Regis, 62 (Article in serial). SWX8688.

‘WYKE REGIS (SY 659779). A. M. Hunt reports that salvage excavation and recording was undertaken by the Dorset Institute of Higher Education when the digging of service trenches disturbed Iron Age and/or Romano-British burials and settlement evidence. Publication pending.’

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1982, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1981, 131-132 (Serial). SDO81.

<1> Dockrill S J, 1981, A Late Iron Age and Romano-British site at Wyke Regis, Dorset, p131-2 (Article in serial). SWX1828.

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