Arnold, G. and Cornah, T. (2016). Archaeological evaluation of land off Berkeley Close, South Cerney, Gloucestershire. Worcester: Worcestershire Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1054740. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Archaeological evaluation of land off Berkeley Close, South Cerney, Gloucestershire
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Series:		 Worcestershire Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 An archaeological evaluation was undertaken of land adjacent to Berkeley Close, South Cerney, Gloucestershire (NGR SU 04659 96532). It was undertaken for Richard Smalley of CgMs Consulting whose client, Gladman Developments Ltd, intend the residential development of the site for which a planning application is in preparation. The site is one part of a large field on the western edge of South Cerney, a village on the border of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. A desk-based assessment of the site identified a low potential for the survival of archaeological features within the site. A geophysical survey of the site identified an area of quarrying and the buried remains of ridge and furrow agriculture. Consultation with Gloucestershire County Council established the requirement for an archaeological evaluation of the site to support the planning application. Five trenches of 50m length were excavated on the site, representing a sample of approximately 2%. A number of post medieval and modern features were recorded including ploughed out furrows, a former field boundary ditch and evidence of quarrying. Two small sherds of highly abraded, possibly Roman pottery were recovered from a very shallow ditch which was also recorded in another trench 200m to the north-west. It is thought that this may represent the remains of an earlier period of activity, but one that has been very heavily truncated by the plough. The lack of other finds of this period from the site in general, stratified or unstratified would suggest that, had Roman features once existed on the site, they were agricultural in origin and distant from settlement activity. The sherds may equally have been present on the site through the process of manuring.
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Author:		 G Arnold
Tim Cornah
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Publisher:		 Worcestershire Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2016
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Site: Land off Berkeley Close
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cotswold
Parish: SOUTH CERNEY
Country: England
Grid Reference: 404659, 196532 (Easting, Northing)
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ROMAN (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FIELD BOUNDARY (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FURROWS (Monus)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) QUARRY PITS (Monus)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: fieldsec1-265360
OBIB: 2389
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Created Date:		 17 Jul 2019