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Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment on Land on the South Side of the Oddington Road, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire |
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John Moore Heritage Services unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
This document represents an investigation of the potential for archaeological remains on land south of Oddington Road, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire (NGR SP 1975 2556). An assessment of the archaeology in the vicinity of the Oddington Road indicates that there is a high potential for some archaeology to be located in the fields of the proposal site. Investigation to the north of the Oddington Road has found evidence of an extensive and intensive Iron Age and Roman settlement. Some of the descriptions of the Roman period settlement are indicative of a series of plots in enclosures. The Oddington Road is regarded as being the location of a Roman road, and with these two factors combined it is possible that the Oddington Road is the location of a Roman roadside settlement. The features were obscured by later agricultural activity. The implications are that if this is indeed this type of settlement then archaeology would be expected on the south side of the Oddington Road and one would expect it to extend into the fields of the proposal if not necessarily into the proposal site itself. Aerial photographs show a series of ambiguous features in the fields of the proposal site, but the exact nature of these features is unknown. At some time in the early medieval period the focus of settlement altered and the area of the proposal site and Oddington Road settlement was turned over to agriculture. |
Author: |
Stephen Yeates
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Publisher: |
John Moore Heritage Services
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Gloucestershire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2013
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Land South of Oddington Road |
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Gloucestershire |
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Cotswold |
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MAUGERSBURY |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 419750, 225560 (Easting, Northing)
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johnmoor1-219396 |
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Report No. 2955 |
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Created Date: |
17 Jun 2019 |