Site Data from an Archaeological Excavation at Lydney B Phase III, Archers Walk, Lydney, Gloucestershire 2020
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Introduction
This collection comprises site data (images, a report, a project database and GIS data) from an archaeological excavation undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology between January and February 2020 at Lydney B Phase III, Archers Walk, Lydney, Gloucestershire. An area of 0.6ha was excavated within this phase (Phase III) of a wider development area.
Aside from three residual flints, none closely datable, the earliest remains comprised a small assemblage of Roman pottery and ceramic building material, also residual and most likely derived from a Roman farmstead found immediately to the north within the Phase II excavation area. A single sherd of Anglo-Saxon grass-tempered pottery was also residual.
The earliest features, which accounted for the majority of the remains on site, relate to medieval agricultural activity focused within a large enclosure. There was little to suggest domestic occupation within the site: the pottery assemblage was modest and well abraded, whilst charred plant remains were sparse, and, as with some metallurgical residues, point to waste disposal rather than the locations of processing or consumption. A focus of occupation within the Rodley Manor site, on higher ground 160m to the north-west, seems likely, with the currently site having lain beyond this and providing agricultural facilities, most likely corrals and pens for livestock. Animal bone was absent, but the damp, low-lying ground would have been best suited to cattle. An assemblage of medieval coins recovered from the subsoil during a metal detector survey may represent a dispersed hoard.
