Brett, M. and Hart, J. (2017). Land north of Roman Way, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire: Archaeological Excavation. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1055611. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land north of Roman Way, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire: Archaeological Excavation
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 An archaeological excavation was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology, on behalf of Bloor Homes Ltd, between June and July 2015 on Land North of Roman Way, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, in advance of residential development. Remains were found in the northern part of the site (Area 1), the earliest comprising an arc of postholes located along the eastern edge of a small gravel island on the clay valley floor between the Rivers Eye/Dikler and Windrush. Radiocarbon dating demonstrated that these dated to the second half of the 9th millennium BC (the Early Mesolithic). A few sherds of Neolithic pottery were recovered from the site, but most remains were of a Middle Bronze Age cemetery focussed on the western edge of the gravel island. The cemetery seems to have been exposed in its entirety and comprised the inhumations of two adult women and the cremated remains of a further ten unsexed individuals, comprising eight adults and two non adults. Radiocarbon dating placed these burials within the middle to late second millennium BC (the Middle Bronze Age). The burials were concentrated across an area 29m in diameter and may have been covered by a barrow, of which no traces survived, but were more probably within a flat cemetery. The investigation also examined a possible continuation of the Iron Age ramparts of Salmonsbury Camp into the southern part of the site (Area 2) but showed that no such continuation was present. Iron Age remains were restricted to an abraded pottery sherd within a palaeochannel and a second abraded sherd within a posthole found within the area of the Middle Bronze Age cemetery. Later remains related to the site's location within the agricultural hinterland of Bourton-on-the-Water from the medieval period onwards.
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Author:		 M Brett
Jonathan Hart
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2017
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Site: Land North of Roman Way
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cotswold
Parish: BOURTON ON THE WATER
Country: England
Grid Reference: 417270, 221500 (Easting, Northing)
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MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) HUMAN REMAINS (Object England)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) CREMATION BURIAL (Monument Type England)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) CROUCHED INHUMATION (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-289406
OBIB: 16416
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Created Date:		 16 Aug 2019