SDO10034 - County Hospital. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

Assessment excavations in the grounds of the County Hospital, which is situated in the south-west corner of the Roman town, adjacent to the southern and western defences, were carried out in December 1989. The work was commissioned by the Health Authority, before applications for planning permission for redevelopment were submitted. At the time of writing the fieldwork is still in progress; however, so far a sequence of 1st-4th century buildings has been identified, and a small area adjacent to the western defences examined. In that trench the tail of the chalk rampart was located, and behind that lay a Roman stone wall, which appears to predate the extension of the defences in the late Roman period.