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Archaeological Watching Brief at Cold Aston Primary School, Cold Aston, Gloucestershire |
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Worcestershire Archaeology unpublished report series
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An archaeological watching brief was undertaken at Cold Aston Primary School, Cold Aston, Gloucestershire (NGR: SP 127 198). It was undertaken on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council Corporate Building Services, who intends to install a new drainage system. The project aimed to determine if any significant archaeological site was present and if so to indicate its date, nature and location. Three trenches were observed to the north and west of the school buildings, towards the boundary wall with St Andrew's Church. A deep silty clay topsoil and subsoil sequence was recorded, overlying the natural matrix of limestone brash and bedrock at approximately 1.50m below the present ground surface. A small number of unabraded Late Saxon/early medieval Cotswold unglazed ware pottery sherds were recovered from the subsoil. No features of Saxon or medieval date were identified however. Although lying directly adjacent to the medieval (and probably earlier) manor house, the site is conjectured to have remained open and undeveloped through this period. A limestone wall was observed, toward the north side of the site, with a small area of cobbling adjacent. The wall is considered to be part of the structure that is visible as a scar on the building façade along the north boundary of the site. This was a toilet block, probably built as part of the original construction of the school in the mid 19th century, and demolished in the mid 1990s. Although the cobbled surface and wall appear contemporary from the stratigraphy, their exact relationship was indeterminate, due to modern truncation. |
Author: |
A Crawford
T M Vaughan
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Worcestershire Archaeology
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Please note: this record has been validated by-proxy by Historic England.
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Year of Publication: |
2008
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Cold Aston Primary School |
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Gloucestershire |
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Cotswold |
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COLD ASTON |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 412791, 219866 (Easting, Northing)
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fieldsec1-233216 |
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Report Reference 1572 |
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17 Jun 2019 |