Monument record MDO18323 - WDDC car park, Colliton Street, Dorchester; Post-medieval well

A post-medieval well was found during a watching brief carried out by Terrain Archaeology in 2000 during the replacement of a retaining wall. The well was partially exposed in the northeast part of the site. It had a circular shaft cut into the chalk bedrock and had a dry stone lining to the upper part. The upper two metres of this well was void and it had been capped with concrete. The precise date of this well is not known but it is likely that it was capped in the late 19th or 20th century.

A post-medieval well was found during a watching brief carried out by Terrain Archaeology in 2000 during the replacement of a retaining wall (1) (2). The numbers in square brackets are context numbers used in the report and archive (1).

The well [123] was partially exposed in the northeast part of the site. It had a circular shaft cut into the chalk bedrock and had a dry stone lining to the upper part. The upper two metres of this well was void and it had been capped with concrete. The precise date of this well is not known but it is likely that it was capped in the late 19th or 20th century.

National Monuments Record, NMR Monument Record, SY 69 SE 382 (Index). SDO9937.

<1> Bellamy, P, 2000, West Dorset District Council Car Park, Colliton Street, Dorchester, Dorset: Archaeological Observations (Unpublished document). SDO9517.

<2> Bellamy, P S, 2000, Dorchester, WDDC Car Park, Colliton Street. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 173 (Article in serial). SDO9518.

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