SHORNCOTE QUARRY (NORTH)
Description: Site code: W5645/W9897. Excavation followed evaluation (Event 1044813) and demonstrated that the Late Bronze Age settlement site is more extensive than suspected, covering the whole of a 9ha extension area with some foci of activity apparent. Site also referred to as Shorncote Quarry (East). NMR Microfilm Index PRN: 7501 and 7531.
Year Start: 1995
Year End: 1995
Country: England
County: GLOUCESTERSHIRE
District: COTSWOLD
Parish: SOMERFORD KEYNES
Grid Reference:
SU0310096850
Map Reference:
[EPSG:27700] 403100, 196850
Period/Subject: LATE NEOLITHIC - CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE, LATE NEOLITHIC - RING DITCH, EARLY BRONZE AGE - CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE, EARLY BRONZE AGE - RING DITCH, LATE BRONZE AGE - UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT, LATE BRONZE AGE - HUT CIRCLE, LATE BRONZE AGE - PIT, LATE BRONZE AGE - WELL
Intervention Type: EXCAVATION
Identifiers:
[ADS] Depositor Id: 1136811
[ADS] Associated Id: RCHME Microfilm Index Number: 7501
[ADS] Associated Id: RCHME Microfilm Index Number: 7531
[ADS] Import RCN: EHNMR-1136811
People Involved:
[Publisher] Historic England
[Creator] Corinium Museum Cirencester
[Creator] Wessex Archaeology
[Creator] National Monuments Record Centre
Bibliographic References:
- 114/1996, 182-3. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.
- 117/1999, 35-73. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.
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