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Title:

Land North of Gloucester Road Tutshill, Tidenham, Gloucestershire. Archaeological Excavation

Number of Pages:

DOI

Publication Type:

Report

Abstract:

An archaeological excavation was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology in January 2018 at the request of Bellway Homes Ltd (Wales) and their archaeological consultant, CgMs Heritage, on land north of Gloucester Road, Tutshill, in the parish of Tidenham, Gloucestershire. These works were the final part of phased investigation of the site that followed on from an archaeological evaluation.The excavation identified a small number of features of principally prehistoric, Late Saxon and medieval date. The earliest find was the truncated and disturbed remains of an Early Bronze Age crouched inhumation burial of an adult male in a possible stone lined cist. Residual finds including a worked flint, and a small quantity of Iron Age and Roman pottery hint at other activity on or near the site. However, the only features that could be dated with any confidence are of late Saxon/medieval and post-medieval date that collectively represent dispersed and small-scale settlement activity and land division associated with rural settlement. Radiocarbon dating indicates a single pit is of probable late Saxon date, whilst two other pits are assigned a 12th to 14th century date based on a small quantity of pottery. Other small features, mostly pits, are probably of this date. A ditch and other traces of ditches and gullies represent likely field boundaries, whilst an extant low, broad linear bank that crossed the site from north to south is interpreted as a possible field lynchet of late medieval or post-medieval date. Plant macrofossils were generally sparse with the exception of those found in two of the late Saxon/medieval pits and included grassland and arable weed seeds, cereal grains (free-threshing wheat and barley), oats and garden pea. One of the pits also contained fish scales, perhaps reflecting the proximity of the River Wye. The excavation produced only a small assemblage of 12th to 13th century pottery, including some non-local wares and part of a jug of Ham Green type. The only other notable artefact is a probable weaver's tool - an antler pin beater or pick, of late Saxon/medieval date.

Author:

J Cook

Publisher:

Cotswold Archaeology

Year of Publication:

2019

Locations:

Location - Auto Detected:	Gloucester
Location - Auto Detected:	River Wye
Location - Auto Detected:	Gloucester Road
Location - Auto Detected:	Tidenham
Location - Auto Detected:	Gloucestershire

Subjects / Periods:

Early Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal)

Late Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal)

12th to 13th century (Auto Detected Temporal)

Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal)

late Saxon/medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)

post-medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)

medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)

12th to 14th century (Auto Detected Temporal)

late Saxon/medieval pits (Auto Detected Temporal)

pottery (Auto Detected Subject)

inhumation burial (Auto Detected Subject)

bank (Auto Detected Subject)

ditches (Auto Detected Subject)

barley (Auto Detected Subject)

worked flint (Auto Detected Subject)

gullies (Auto Detected Subject)

weed seeds (Auto Detected Subject)

cereal grains (Auto Detected Subject)

stone lined cist (Auto Detected Subject)

tool - an antler pin beater (Auto Detected Subject)

pits (Auto Detected Subject)

wares (Auto Detected Subject)

settlement (Auto Detected Subject)

jug (Auto Detected Subject)

field boundaries (Auto Detected Subject)

fish (Auto Detected Subject)

rural settlement (Auto Detected Subject)

ditch (Auto Detected Subject)

Roman (Auto Detected Temporal)

prehistoric (Auto Detected Temporal)

Identifiers:

Report Id:

9273_1

Source:

ADS Library (ADS Library)

Created Date:

20 Jan 2020