Monument record MDO6849 - Hamworthy to Badbury Roman Road recorded south of Upton House, Poole

In June 1985 a machine trench for the new Turlin Moor Sewer exposed a section of the Hamworthy-Badbury Roman Road to the south of Upton House. The road survived as a layer of gravel overlying a black sandy soil, probably the remains of a turf stack.

In June 1985 a machine trench for the new Turlin Moor Sewer exposed a section of the Hamworthy-Badbury Roman Road. The sequence consisted of a single layer of gravel 0.3 m thick overlying a black sandy soil which sealed the base of a podsol soil profile. The investigation of the same road 500m to the south at Vineyards Copse had demonstrated that the black sandy soil was the remains of a turf stack. (1)

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 159 (Serial). SDO85.

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