Site Data from an Archaeological Excavation at Lydney B Phase II, Archers Walk, Lydney, Gloucestershire 2018
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Introduction
This collection comprises site data (reports, images, GIS data and a project database) from an archaeological excavation at Lydney B Phase II, Archers Walk, Lydney, Gloucestershire undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology between February and May 2018. An area of 1.47ha was excavated within this part of a wider development area.
The earliest remains comprised three broadly datable flints, all found as residual finds. An Early Bronze Age collared urn within a small pit may be the remains of a grave, although no human remains were found. The first evidence for occupation is from the Roman period, with finds spanning the 1st to 3rd centuries AD, with a clear focus within the 2nd to 3rd centuries. Two phases of Roman activity were identified, the first comprising cereal-processing ovens and two crescent-shaped ditches, one associated with metalworking debris. The later phase comprised stone founded buildings associated with wells, enclosures, trackways and a single cremation deposit. These seem to indicate a Romanised farm below the status of a villa. Little animal bone survived, but the enclosures are suggestive of livestock farming. Occupation seems to have ended in the mid 3rd century, although the reasons for this are not apparent.
Further use of the site dates to the medieval period, between the late 12th and 15th centuries, when an agricultural building was constructed, probably an outlier of a manorial farm previously excavated to the west.
