SDO11472 - Gillingham Relief Road; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

In March 1989 the Trust for Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Dorset County Council to undertake an assessment at four points on the proposed route of the Gillingham Relief Road…Four machine trenches were examined on the Newbury, Turners Lane and Cemetery Road frontages. The former exhibited modern disturbance, although the trench to the west of Cemetery Road contained medieval pottery within the fill of a square profiled trench running parallel to the street frontage. This probably represents a robbed out medieval wall. Further assessment work on the proposed route is anticipated in 1990.