Title: |
Land Adjacent to Orchard House, Upper Up, South Cerney, Gloucestershire |
Series: |
Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
A programme of archaeological recording was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology during groundworks associated with the construction of a new dwelling, garage, and driveway on land adjacent to Orchard House, Upper Up, South Cerney, Gloucestershire. Medieval activity was represented by six ditches, small pit/posthole alignments and larger pits, probable quarry pits, containing evidence of industrial waste. The presence of a whittle-tang knife may indicate settlement of Saxon origins in the vicinity of the site, probably contemporary with the burials recorded to the south-west at the Royal Oak. The existence of quarry pits and other pits backfilled with domestic rubbish and industrial waste suggests that by the 12th/13th centuries the site certainly lay close to, or on the very periphery of, a settlement. Waste from these pits suggests that some form of ironworking took place close to the periphery of the settlement. The ditches recorded may represent the enclosure boundaries or field system of the settlement, with further fencing or post-built structures represented by pit/posthole alignments. |
Author: |
J Webster
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Publisher: |
Cotswold Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Gloucestershire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2007
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Locations: |
Site: |
Orchard House, South, Cerney |
Parish: |
SOUTH CERNEY |
District: |
Cotswold |
County: |
Gloucestershire |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 404350, 196920 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: |
cotswold2-33423 |
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Created Date: |
23 Nov 2016 |