SDO14889 - Land south of Leigh Road, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Geophyiscal Survey

‘A fluxgate gradiometer survey was undertaken on land south of Leigh Road, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. The effectiveness of the survey has been limited by widespread ferrous litter contained within domestic compost that has been spread across almost the entire site. This has served to partially mask magnetically weaker features, including potential archaeological remains. Notwithstanding this, a number of ephemeral linear anomalies have been flagged as possible ditches, possibly indicative of traces of early occupation and including a potential small enclosure within 50m to the north of a Roman road. Strong responses were registered across buried services and in close proximity to electricity poles and tension cables.’