Barber, A. (2009). Land at the Down Ampney Estate, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire: Archaeological Evaluation. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1010044. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land at the Down Ampney Estate, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire: Archaeological Evaluation
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 An archaeological evaluation, encompassing topographic survey and trial trenching, was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology between February and April 2009 in advance of proposed quarrying on land at the Down Ampney Estate, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. A total of 365 trenches were excavated across the site. The results from ongoing investigation of a further 122 trenches, within the south-eastern part of the site, will subsequently be incorporated into a revised version of this report The evaluation has identified archaeological deposits across most of the application area. Prehistoric activity was identified from several residual Mesolithic flints and from limited, dispersed Neolithic, ?Bronze Age and Iron Age artefacts and features within the site. No firm evidence was encountered however for actual settlement foci predating the Iron Age. At Down Ampney airfield a well-preserved Late Iron Age to late Roman complex of ditched enclosures, with associated trackway/droveway, was investigated. The complex of intensively recut and remodelled enclosures has similarities to two excavated sites in the locality interpreted as specialist stock management centres. Further dispersed Roman activity was noted across the site, probably indicative of agricultural activity. No Anglo-Saxon artefacts or features and few medieval finds or deposits were encountered. A post-medieval network of water management features were recorded immediately north of Ampney Brook. A large number of currently undated features, including palaeochannels, ditches, pits and postholes, were recorded across the site.
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Author:		 A Barber
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Gloucestershire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2009
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Site: Land at Down Ampney Estate, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
Parish: DOWN AMPNEY
District: Cotswold
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Grid Reference: 411510, 195640 (Easting, Northing)
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MESOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Object England)
NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Object England)
LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) STOCK ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) STOCK ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-101332
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Created Date:		 24 Nov 2016