Monument record MDO6940 - Romano-British field system, Bearwood School, Wheelers Lane, Poole

A ditch, which may be part of a Romano-British field system was discovered during works to construct Bearwood Primary School. It may be part of the same field system found just to the west in Whites' Pit.

A single linear ditch oriented roughly N-S was recorded during a watching brief undertaken by Poole Museums Service during construction of Bearwood Primary School in 1993. This ditch had a U-shaped profile and was filled with brown silty loam and contained two sherds of Romano-British coarseware pottery. A further section of this ditch had been recorded in the previous evaluation excavation by Wessex Archaeology in 1992 but no dating evidence had been recovered. (1) (2) (3)

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1994, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1993, 161 (Serial). SDO93.

Four linear features were recorded one of which produced two sherds of pottery of a probably Romano-British date. The other three ditches or gulleys appeared to be part of an earlier, contemporary system.

<2> Collins, K W, 1993, Archaeological Assessment at Bearwood First School, Poole (Unpublished document). SWX8307.

Feature 3. Linear feature running north/south, shallow "U" profile, brown silty loam fill, tow sherds of coarseware recovered frim this feature are probably Romano-British. This feature equates with context 208 in the evaluation report. Cuts ditch 2.

<3> Coe, D and Hearne, CM, 1992, Bearwood School, Wheelers Lane, Poole, Dorset. Archaeological Evaluation. (Unpublished document). SWX8330.

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