SWX8742 - Archaeological Watching Brief at a Housing Development, St. John's Hill, Wareham

'An archaeological watching brief was carried out in May and June 1993 at St John's Hill, Wareham during the excavation of trenches for foundation pads for a new housing development…this followed an evaluation of the site…in July 1992. The monitoring of the trenches revealed a general sequence comprising: upper levels of probable eighteenth or nineteenth century building footings, particularly on the Church Lane and St. Joh's Hill street frontages where cellars were present, above a deep black soil deposit of possible post-Medieval date. This overlay a deposit of brown sand through which several features of post-medieval and medieval date were cut.'