Iron Age and Romano-British Agriculture in the North Gloucestershire Severn Vale - Softcover

Holbrook, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955353432 ISBN 13: 9780955353437

Publisher: Cotswold Archaeology, 2008

Synopsis

Two reports are published in this volume: Prehistoric and Early Historic Activity, Settlement and Burial at Walton Cardiff, near Tewkesbury: Excavations at Rudgeway Lane 2004-2005 (by Jonathan Hart and E.R. McSloy), and Romano-British Agriculture at the former St James's Railway Station, Cheltenham: Excavations in 2000-2001 (by Laurent Coleman and Martin Watts). Significant remains from Rudgeway Lane include two Middle Bronze Age parallel ditches (the remains of an enclosure, or possibly a long barrow), and a Middle Iron Age enclosure superseded by 1st century AD unenclosed settlement, that was in turn replaced by a 2nd to late 3rd-century AD enclosed rectilinear settlement featuring a roundhouse, a well, several burials and an associated trackway. Two 6th-century burials, one with grave goods, were later made within the abandoned farmstead. At the St James's site in Cheltenham, excavation revealed a field system that was used and developed throughout the Roman period, together with a number of pits and postholes, with two late 4th century AD burials.

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About the Author

Neil Holbrook is Chief Executive of Cotswold Archaeology, and earlier in his career he worked for the Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit between 1986 and 1989. He was co-director of the Roman Rural Settlement Project with Michael Fulford and joint series editor of the three monographs in the New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain series (2016-18).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cotswold Archaeology
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955353432
• ISBN 13: 9780955353437
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112