Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Phase 5, Perrybrook, Brockworth, Gloucestershire 2019
Cotswold Archaeology, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5284/1103171. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1103171
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Introduction
This collection comprises images, GIS data and two project databases from a programme of archaeological investigation on land at Phase 5, Perrybrook, Brockworth, Gloucestershire. Work was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology between February and June 2019 at the request of Taylor Wimpey Bristol. An area of 2.4ha was excavated across the development area. The excavation produced evidence for activity during the late prehistoric and Roman periods.
A ring ditch of late prehistoric date was of ambiguous function but probably contemporary with posthole alignments which probably created land division. This was superseded by an Iron Age open settlement of roundhouses with associated pits. During the earlier Roman period the landscape was divided up by field ditches on a rectilinear plan. A substantial boundary ditch demarcated a settlement area which is beyond the western limits of the excavation.
Three cremation burials also dated to this period. The later Roman period was largely represented by three inhumation burials, with a fourth undated burial most likely of the same period. Other Late Roman activity was confined to a group of irregular pits associated with a scattered hoard of 4th-century AD coins. Early medieval activity was indicated by a brooch of the 5th-7th century. A mixed finds assemblage includes a large assemblage of prehistoric and Roman pottery, some metalwork, coins, worked stone, fired clay and ceramic building material. Charred botanical remains suggest a typical rural settlement in both main periods whilst the animal bone assemblage suggests a similar typical animal economy in the Iron Age with marrow extraction practiced during the Roman period. Radiocarbon dating has helped confirm the dating of the Iron Age occupation and the Roman date of the burials.
