The Weymouth Relief Road crosses an area of intricately varied
geology and one of the richest and most important cultural
landscapes in England, which preserves a wealth of archaeological
and historical remains. Extensive fieldwork in advance of
construction of the Weymouth Relief Road yielded evidence of
Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement and funerary
activity, along with vestiges of Roman occupation. The main sites
were located at Ridgeway Hill, located on the edge of South Dorset
Ridgeway, at the northern end of the scheme and at Southdown Ridge
close to the southern end. At Ridgeway Hill a sequence of Neoltihic
pits was investigated, along with several groups of early Bronze
Age inhumation and cremation burials in pits and cists. The burials
were probably originally associated with barrows that belonged to
the Ridgeway Hill group, one of the densest concentrations of
Bronze Age round barrows in Britain. At Southdown Ridge a
settlement that spanned the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age to the
late Iron Age was discovered lying adjacent to a cross-ridge dyke
and prehistoric field enclosures. The inhabitants engaged in
shale-working activity as well as agriculture until the settlement
was abandoned and converted to a cemetery in which the dead were
buried in the distinctive south Dorset tradition, accompanied by
grave goods, and later in the Roman tradition of coffined burial.
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