EDO4259 - The White Hart, High East Street, Dorchester: Evaluation Trench 1

ASI Heritage Consultants conducted an archaeological evaluation in advance of proposed redevelopment of the site of The White Hart pub in Dorchester, during May 2004. Three machine excavated trial trenches located within the forecourt and enclosed rear yard of the White Hart pub in Dorchester revealed extensive modern and post-medieval disturbance in the SE corner of the site and extensive modern services across the rest of the site to a depth of 0.5m. Trench 1 contained the corner of a post-medieval building with associated cobbled yard surface. The walls of this building appear to have cut a Roman ground level comprising a compacted stone surface above a compacted silt layer.