EDO4103 - South Station, Dorchester; observations and recording 1986

The construction of an access road between Dorchester's new South Station development and Weymouth Avenue uncovered three linear features after the removal of the overburden from the site. A 1.5m wide ditch, filled with light grey-brown silty loam was seen running parallel with Weymouth Avenue, some 7.0m to the east, and was probably a flanking ditch to the Roman Road to Radipole, which follows the line of the present Weymouth Avenue. Sixty metres further east, two parallel ditches aligned NE-SW and spaced three metres apart. These ditches were not investigated and no dating evidence was recovered but their red-brown clay fills and their alignment on Maumbury Rings may indicate a prehistoric date, but perhaps a Civil War date is more likely and these ditches form part of the 'covered way' that leads from Maumbury to Dorchester.