SDO14103 - Possible Roman remains at the top of the back garden of 25 Glyde Path Road

When my cousins and I were talking recently we realised we had all been told the same secret by my uncle Wilf Wakely, a keen gardener, that he had discovered a piece of, he believed, Roman pavement at the top of his garden, where it abuts the prison grounds. I agree that I would pass this on to you. Uncle Wilf was an old Dorchester family and not particularly impressed by Roman remains, being more interested in preserving his rhubarb patch. He is long dead and others now live in the house, which is the first one past Glyde Court as you walk away from the town. It is just the other side of the road from, in effect, and in line with, the villa behind county hall and it cellar links with the passages in Colliton Park. I still have a piece of terracotta tesselata which I was given by Uncle Norman Batstone who lodged with Uncle Wilf and Aunt Kate and helped with the garden in the 1960s.