SDO14034 - A Preliminary Archaeological Assessment at the Coldstream Dairy, Milborne St Andrew, Dorset

A desk-based study and site visit was carried out for this proposed redevelopment site, in May 1996, to assess the archaeological potential. The principal interest in the site is the discovery and partial excavation in 1929, when the original dairy was constructed, of a late Iron Age and Romano-British settlement. This study summarises the earlier land-use of the area and the circumstances of the archaeological discoveries and concludes that further archaeological deposits are likely to exist in the area of the proposed development. The quality and degree of survival of these deposits is likely to have been adversely affected by original and subsequent building work and terracing, but that in certain zones on the fringes of the site good preservation may be anticipated.