Scowles Survey, Forest of Dean

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Gloucestershire County Council (2010) Scowles Survey, Forest of Dean [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000302

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Overview

The Scowles and Associated Iron Industry project was undertaken by the Archaeology Service of Gloucestershire County Council's Environment Department, between January 2003 and March 2004. It formed a daughter project of the main Forest of Dean Archaeological Survey and was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund administered by English Heritage. Scowles, a landscape feature almost unique to the Forest of Dean, have traditionally been interpreted as the remains of early open-cast iron ore extraction. They range from deep irregular quarry-like features to amorphous shallow hollows, and are found within the area of the outcrops of Carboniferous Limestones (and particularly the Crease Limestone) around the edge of the central Forest of Dean.

The digital archive

The digital archive currently consists of the following resources:

Project Report:
  • Hoyle, J.P., Butler,L., Tait, G., and Wootton, D., 2004: The Forest of Dean Gloucestershire. The Scowles and Associated Iron Industry Survey. Project Number 3342. Unpublished Report for English Heritage. Gloucestershire County Council.
Project GIS:

The project GIS contains all new recorded scowles, as well as innaccessible areas and the location of the field survey photogrpahs.

Scowles database:

Throughout the Scowles and Associated Iron Industry Survey The Gloucestershire County Sites and Monuments was used as the project database and identified scowles were numbered with reference to that system (see Appendix A of the final report). Subsequent to the field survey, and the production of the first draft of the report, the data was fully integrated into the SMR with the result that numbers identifying scowles in the survey database no longer refer to the SMR and should be regarded as field survey references only.

Field Survey photographs:

A selection of images from the Scowles field survey, all images are listed in the accompanying GIS.

Non-digital Archive and Publications

In addition to the reports contained within the digital archive the project also produced the following outputs:

Other publications
Hoyle, J.P., Owen, D., Rowlatt, S. and Studholme, C. forthcoming. Scowles in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire: Their geological, archaeological and ecological significance, in Proceedings of the Cotteswolds Naturalists Field Club.
Hoyle, J.P. 2004: Forest of Dean Scowles Survey, in Wills, J. (ed.) Archaeological review 2003, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 122.
Leaflets / Posters
Scowles information leaflet - unpublished A4 leaflet produced by Gloucestershire County Council Archaeology Service for circulation to interested parties on application.
The Scowles and Associated Iron Industry Survey in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, Summary of the 2003-2004 survey - unpublished A5 pamphlet produced by Gloucestershire County Council Archaeology Service for limited circulation.
Scowles in the Forest of Dean, their formation, history and wildlife. Leaflet produced for wide circulation (10,000 distributed) produced jointly by Gloucestershire County Council Archaeology Service, Gloucestershire Geology Trust and Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.
Workshops
Workshop: Discuss the survey and scowles, Bream 12/07/2003
Workshop: Discussion of results of the survey including field trip to scowles, Bream and Lydney park 21/02/2006
Lectures / Seminars
Paper at conference: The Historical Metalugical Society 2006: Problems of interpreting field evidence for the early Iron industry in Dean.
Lecture: University of the Third Age, Gloucester, February 2004.
Lecture: Forest of Dean Local History Society, Cinderford, 2005.
Lecture: Gloucester and District Archaeological Research Group, 2005.
Lecture: Committee for Archaeology in Gloucestershire, November 2005.
Lecture: Gloucestershire Geology Trust, September 2006.
Guided Tours
Tours of selected scowles have been given to the following groups: English Heritage's National Mapping Programme teams, 2005; SCAUM, 2005.
Press Release
The Independent on Sunday: 2005.
Radio / TV interview.
BBC Gloucestershire: Country Matters, 2003.
Forest of Dean Community Radio: History Half Hour.

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) do not hold any further information regarding these non-digital outputs, any queries should be directed to the depositor.


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