Series: Bath Archaeological Trust unpublished report series

Although the project was small, varying amounts of information were discovered about the use of the site during the Early Roman period, the later Roman period, the Late Saxon period, the Norman period and the 18th and 19th century. The discovered included: (i) the location of a robbed out Roman wall and the recording of five exposed 1st century walls, one of which still had traces of paint of it. (ii) A number of mid-4th century contexts including a floor, a probable furnace or hot box and a number of Late Roman deposits. (iii) The location of the position of three burials (probably Late Saxon). (iv) The location of one charnel pit (probably Norman). (v) Two late 18th century lavatories which contained a large and varied assemblage of late 18th and early 19th century finds. [Au(abr)]

Three trenches were excavated west of the known Roman villa site at Box. Previous work by BAT had shown that Roman walls and structures extended westwards from the previous known site of the villa, however, terracing and building work relating to the present Box House Hotel made the survival of any such deposits uncertain. In fact the corner of the study area revealed substantail building features of Roman date, a very large stone capped culvert in trench 1 and a Roman ditch in trench 3. All these features had stratified deposits associated including what appeared to be a series of layers of charcoal and ash, these were of such quality and size that they were considered likely to be part of the Roman villa which would therefore have had to have been twice the size as previously established. [Au]

An evaluation was carried out on the site of the proposed Bradley Stoke Primary School. The site was of considerable potential interest because evidence of Neolithic, Iron Age and Romano-British occupation, extending along the terrace on the right bank of the Bradley Brook, had been found in 1990-2. Two late-Roman buildings, now preserved beneath a cricket ground were recorded. Six trial trenches were excavated by machine, one of them located a rock-cut ditch containing Late Iron Age and early Roman sherds. It appeared to have formed the south-eastern boundary of the settlement, the limits of which were previously unknown. [Au(abr)]