A35 Tolpuddle to Puddletown Bypass DBFO, Dorset, 1996–8: incorporating excavations at Tolpuddle Ball 1993
Carrie M Hearne & Vaughan Birbeck
Description
The A35 Tolpuddle to Puddletown Bypass in Dorset was one of the first tranche of Design, Build, Finance and Operate road schemes whereby responsibility for undertaking archaeological work is transferred from the Highways Agency to DBFO Company.
The bypass provided a 9 km long transect on the margins of the chalk uplands of Dorset and their interface with the Piddle Valley and the Hampshire Basin. This is a zone of particular interest for the later prehistoric and Roman periods since it lies between the regional centre of Dorchester and the industrial zone of Purbeck.
Fourteen different areas of interest were identified along the route, ranging in date from the Neolithic to post-medieval. The most important site was a multi-period settlement near Tolpuddle Ball. An Iron Age and Romano-British site was first examined here in 1993 by Liverpool University for the Highways Agency. The DBFO project has demonstrated settlement on this site extending back to the earlier Bronze Age. An inhumation cemetery was also discovered near Tolpuddle Ball dating from the Late Roman period to the 7th century AD - a a rare and most important discovery for the region.
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