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The Cotswold Water Park Project is a landscape study centred around parts of the Upper Thames Valley and the southern Cotswolds, in the hinterland of the Roman town of Cirencester. The aim of the project has been to examine the social, political and economic development of the area, from the middle Iron Age to the end of the Roman period, with a particular emphasis on cultural interaction and transformation.
Whilst incorporating information from many different archaeological sites, the study has focused upon a smaller number of unpublished fieldwork projects undertaken by Oxford Archaeological Unit (OAU; now Oxford Archaeology: OA) during the late 1970s and 1980s. This was part of an intensive archaeological research programme in the region, which revealed a number of extensive rural settlement sites on the low-lying gravel terraces, ranging in date from the middle Iron Age to the early post-Roman period. These site all now lie within the eastern and western Cotswold Water Parks.
The dataset that makes up the digital volume contains detailed archive reports on the stratigraphy, finds and environmental evidence for the four key Cotswold Water Park sites and the survey sites. Digital Section 1 is an introduction to the Project. Digital sections 2 to 4 contain archive reports for Claydon Pike, along with full context and finds tables for this site. The remaining sections (5 to 8) contain the archive reports and supporting material for the other Cotswold Water Park sites.
All of the data within the digital volume is intended to support the interpretations and discussions outlined within the print volume. However, both sections are designed to be consulted independently of each other.
The dataset has been created from original site archive material and specialist reports which have been re-analysed and updated during the course of the current project from 2001 to 2004. The excavation dates for the key sites are:
All maps used have been georeferenced using OS co-ordinates.