SWX8653 - Sutton Poyntz Water Treatment Works, Sutton Poyntz, nr. Weymouth, Dorset, Archaeological Evaluation

Report on an archaeological evaluation of an area just north of the existing Water Treatment Works at Sutton Poyntz by Wessex Archaeology for Wessex Water. The evaluation consisted of the excavation of trenches representing approximately a 3% sample of the site, and exposed a series of gullies, ditches and postholes with a date range potentially spanning the first millennium BC and the first years of the 1st century AD, and interpreted as evidence of a well preserved mid to late Iron Age settlement with some evidence of occupation during Neolithic, Late Bronze Age and early Roman periods. A large area of infilling in the eastern part of the site, possibly the filled-in bed of a meander of the River Jordan, was found to contain Iron Age and Roman pottery sherds. A spread of debris including limestone rubble with slate fragments sealed the southern part of the site, and may have been created when the waterworks was built.