Connelly, E. (2014). Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment of a Site at Kingsholm Road, Gloucester. Worcester: Worcestershire Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1042996. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment of a Site at Kingsholm Road, Gloucester
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Series:		 Worcestershire Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 A desk-based assessment for the historic environment was undertaken on behalf of Astam at Kingsholm Road, Gloucester (NGR ref (SO83471933). The site, currently a car sales outlet, lies on the east side of Kingsholm Road which leads north from Gloucester city centre. The River Twyver, a former course of the River Severn flows over 200m to the south. Iron Age coins found within the area support a theory that there was a pre-Roman crossing of the Twyver in Kingsholm. Several Roman roads are aligned towards Kingsholm and it is considered by some commentators that Kingsholm Road might be one of them. Archaeological works have demonstrated that a Roman military fortress was once situated in this area. The fortress which was a predecessor of Gloucester is thought to have been abandoned in the AD60s at which time the walled colony of Gloucester (Glevum Colonia) was established. In the later Roman period the fort became a cemetery and Roman burials including high status burials and a mausoleum have been found in the vicinity. The exact layout of the fortress is not fully established, but some estimates have shown the site as lying within its boundaries. A secondary Saxon burial, known as 'the Goth', in the mausoleum suggests that the mausoleum continued as a feature of the landscape after the Roman era, and during the time of Edward the Confessor there was a royal palace at Kingsholm, at the site of the Roman fortress. The site lay outside the medieval city of Gloucester, though adjacent to a major route into the city. A map of 1624 depicts the site as undeveloped to the north of the city. On the Inclosure map of 1799 part of the site is depicted as a 'messuage garden and C' with a possible house shown, and a part of an orchard. Most of the land in the vicinity was shown as agricultural on the Inclosure map, but Kingsholm was built up by the late 19th Century.
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Author:		 E Connelly
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Publisher:		 Worcestershire Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Gloucester City Council (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2014
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Site: Kingsholm Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
County: Gloucestershire
District: Gloucester
Parish: GLOUCESTER
Country: England
Grid Reference: 383470, 219330 (Easting, Northing)
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DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH (Event)
FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT) (Event)
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT (Event)
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OASIS Id: fieldsec1-239450
OBIB: Report Reference 2150
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Created Date:		 18 Aug 2017