ABSTRACT
In general, by the early years of the twentieth century enthusiasm for archaeological work had grown apace in many parts of the Roman world. For the study of Roman archaeology, it is perhaps the excavations at the native-type but Roman period sites at Woodcuts and at Rotherley on the Cranborne Estate which are his most significant contribution. The scale of building, reconstruction, expansion, and development in the post-war period has made this kind of unwitting damage to archaeological remains a continual possibility. During the middle years of the twentieth century, there was a continuing refinement of techniques of excavation for sites of all periods. Analysis of excavated material from a variety of sites, and excavation data from new campaigns of digging, suggested that the history of the wall could be broken down into four main periods.
