Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 121

Excavation revealed a complex site spanning a period from the prehistoric to the Anglo-Saxon. Three Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age roundhouses were the earliest structures found. In the Early to Middle Iron Age there was a major reorganisation of the landscape. A long linear ditch may be part of a feature found on other sites in Lechlade that seems to have demarcated an area of land at the confluence of the Rivers Thames and Leach. In the Middle Iron Age the ditch was recut and it formed the western boundary of a dense cluster of sixty-nine storage pits. Little evidence was found for Late Iron Age or Romano-British activity, but the site was reoccupied in the Anglo-Saxon period when six sunken-featured buildings and three sub-rectangular post-built structures were erected. This is presumably at least part of the settlement associated with the cemetery that was previously excavated at Butler's Field. Includes:

187 pieces including one fragment of an Iron Age loomweight and c. seventy fragments of Anglo-Saxon loomweights

five coins were found, of dates ranging from the late Iron Age to the late sixteenth--early seventeenth century. Only one was securely stratified, a Roman coin found in an Anglo-Saxon context

seven objects dating to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, including a decorated Iron Age toggle

107 worked flints were recovered, many of which were of later Neolithic or early Bronze Age type

including detailed analysis of fragments from middle Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon deposits

Excavations established the presence of an early-second-century Roman building, which is interpreted as part of a baths building. In the fifth century the building was levelled and a timber mausoleum built in which was a group of three burials. Two of the graves were emptied of their occupants and the head of the third was removed; the mausoleum was destroyed by fire. A sequence of buildings on the site thereafter, preserving the alignment of the mausoleum, is interpreted as a series of churches, culminating in the medieval church of St Mary de Lode. The documentary evidence is examined and research suggesting that St Mary's was a British church is cited. Finds were of Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval date. Includes:

eleven coins are listed

three late eleventh-century tokens are described and discussed

twenty-four tiles or fragments of two types were found

fragments of two Anglo-Saxon cross-shafts and a medieval lion's head carving are described

large quantities of painted wall plaster were recovered

five soil samples were examined

including probable identification of the structure discovered in 1820

Mostly historical account drawn from a collection of family manuscripts of the seventeenth century, including a section on the house (since demolished) and estate.

Comprises many short, separately authored, contributions concerning research and fieldwork undertaken during the year in the Bristol and Gloucestershire area. Reports are listed alphabetically by parish or city/town street. Surveys are also noted.