Iron Age and Roman occupation at Coln Gravel, Thornhill Farm, Fairford, Gloucestershire
Alex Smith, 2007. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000290. How to cite using this DOI
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Resource identifiers
- ADS Collection: 717
- ALSF Project Number: 3556
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000290
- How to cite using this DOI
Overview
The Coln Gravel site, excavated by OA in 2003 and 2004, lies within the Cotswold Water Park, an area of the Upper Thames Valley that has been subject to widespread gravel extraction for over 50 years. This has in turn led to an ever increasing amount of excavation on the gravel terraces, resulting in this region becoming one of the most intensively studied archaeological landscapes in Britain. The Fairford/Lechlade area in particular has been subject to extensive archaeological investigation from the late 1970s onwards, with excavations targeting the dense concentrations of Iron-Age and Roman cropmarks revealed by aerial photographs. One such concentration was at Thornhill Farm, the main area of which was excavated by OA between 1985 and 1989. The current excavations at Coln Gravel encompassed the southern periphery of the Thornhill Farm site in addition to what were almost certainly the northern limits of a less well-known Roman settlement at Kempsford Bowmoor (OAU 1989).
The Coln Gravel site lies in the Upper Thames Valley in Gloucestershire, near the confluence of the Rivers Thames and Coln, immediately south of the A417 Lechlade to Fairford Road (O. S. Nat. Grid. SU180998). The site straddled the First Gravel Terrace of the Upper Thames Valley, approximately 1 km to the north-east of the river Coln floodplain, at a height of 76 m O.D.
The digital archive
- Stansbie,D., Smith,A., Laws,G. and Haines, T. 2007: Iron Age and Roman occupation at Coln Gravel, Thornhill Farm, Fairford, Gloucestershire. Final Unpublished Report sbmitted to English Heritage.
The ADS archive currently consists of the project report submitted to English Heritage February 2007. The report consists of an overview of archaeological work undertaken by Oxford Archaeology complete with a phasing and interpretation of the site. The report is accompanied by a PDF volume containing all tables reffered to in the main text; location maps, feature plots and pollen diagrams.
Non-digital Archive and Publications
In addition to the reports contained within the digital archive the Coln Gravel project also produced the following outputs:
| Lectures |
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| Lecture given at Corinium Museum, Cirencester 27/04/06: Roman Settlement in the Upper Thames Valley |
| Literary Outputs |
| Stansbie,D., Smith,A., Laws,G. and Haines,T. forthcoming: Iron Age and Roman occupation at Coln Gravel, Thornhill Farm, Fairford, Gloucestershire. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society |
