Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 117

Reports on excavations across the nine-hectare area of a proposed extension to the quarry. Evidence mainly related to a Late Bronze Age unenclosed settlement (similar to that found nearby in 1992), dated to the tenth-to eleventh centuries BC. The extensive settlement comprised at least thirty-six circular structures. Earlier features included a Late Neo/EBA hengiform ring-ditch and EBA ring-ditches. The following finds reports are included: a copper-alloy `Roman coin' by Nicholas Wells (58); `Metalwork' (58) and `Pottery' [multi-period] (57--64) both by Lorraine Mepham; and `Worked flint' by Phil Harding (64--6). Environmental evidence consists of `Land snails from hengiform ring-ditch' by Michael J Allen (66); `Faunal remains' by R Symmons (66--7); and `Carbonised plant remains' by Joy Ede (67--8).

An account of excavations that revealed: enclosure ditches and storage pits of the Middle Iron Age; a Romano-British ditch and inhumation cemetery, possibly associated with a villa; and two ditches of the twelfth century AD. There are finds reports on: copper alloy objects; `The pottery' by Annette Hancocks (104--9 & 112--15); a spindle whorl; `Quernstones' by Fionna Roe (109--10); `Human skeletal remains' by Rebecca Wiggins & Charlotte Roberts (110--12).

Historical evidence for the role in local enterprise of individuals from various sectors of the town's business community.

A metal-detector find made in 1997 -- a type sometimes referred to as `Picardy'.

A re-examination of the fragment, made possible by the conservation and re-mounting work.

Discusses an copy of an antiquarian book first published in 1781.

Includes only the most significant material.