SDO9924 - 'Roman Britain in 1982: 1. Sites explored' Britannia

P324-5 (1) Dorchester (Durnovaria, SY 692906): at the site of the South Street Methodist Chapel a Roman street was located at the north-west corner of the site with the footings of a substantial building to the south, but no trace remained of the tessellated floor previously recorded here [* By H. J. Moule, 1906. See R. C. H. M. Dorset ii Part 3 (London), 566, item 199.] No Roman pottery was found beneath the street, which in its first phase had a gully 0.4m wide on its south site; a first-century timber building lay at right-angles to it, marked by wall-trenches up to 0.4 m deep and 0.3 m wide. In the late first or early second century a square-sectioned water channel 1 m wide and 0.5 m deep was cut along the edge of the street; later this was replaced by a wooden water-pipe; iron collars lay 1.5 m apart. In the eastern part of the site a second timber-framed building was erected on the same alignment as the first; perhaps in the second century a masonry building replace the timber ones, and part of a second wsa found to its west. In the third century or later the substantial foundations of a possibly public building were sunk into the aqueduct-channel, cutting the pipe line. [Excavation directed by Mr P. J. Woodward, who sent information.] (2) Fordington, Dorchester ( Durnovaria, SY 697906): excavation at three sites threatened by development proved negative. At the Moule Institute, where over 200 burials were recorded in 1747, [R. C. H. M. Dorset ii Part 3 (London), 573],the surface had been removed in the nineteenth century during landscaping, and the same was found at the Vicarage and at Parsonage Farm. [Excavation for the Department of the Environment and the Wessex Archaeological Committee was carried out by Mr C. J. Gingell.] Hassall, M. W. C., 1983 ‘Roman Britain in 1982: 2. Inscriptions’ Britannia 14, 336-356 P343 16. Dorchester (Durnovaria, SY 692906), Durngate Street/Southgate Street Methodist Chapel. Fragment of tegula 140 mm by 102 mm, up to 25 mm thick, found [] in 1982 as residual material in a medieval pit. The fragment carries a complete tile-stamp, the die measuring 85 mm by 27 mm, consisting of a raised rectangular border, within which are the following letters also in relief: NVND*. [Excavations by P. J. Woodward and A, Graham for the Wessex Archaeological Committee and the Department of the Environment. Information and photograph from P. J. Woodward.]