Hart, J. and Wilson, L. (2023). Former Nortenham Allotments Site, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire: Archaeological Excavation. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1117493. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Former Nortenham Allotments Site, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire: Archaeological Excavation
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1117493
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Abstract:		 Based on the findings of the preliminary works detailed above, a single excavation area was investigated based on the recommendations of Toby Catchpole. This was initially specified as a rectangular area of 0.25ha but was slightly extended during the fieldwork to investigate partially exposed features along the western limit of excavation, with the approval of Toby Catchpole and Cotswold Homes Ltd. The final excavation area amounted to 0.3ha. Between March and April 2022, Cotswold Archaeology carried out an archaeological excavation of land at the former Nortenham Allotments, Bishop’s Cleeve, Gloucestershire. An area of 0.3ha was excavated. The earliest remains comprised two pits which produced Early Neolithic pottery in the plain bowl tradition along with a small assemblage of flints. Other pits may have been contemporary and the pits as a whole probably point to episodic occupation of this part of the Severn Vale. Occupation may also have occurred during the Middle Bronze Age when a structure interpreted as a post-built roundhouse was constructed, possibly associated with a ditch and two shallow pits. Unfortunately, all lacked dating evidence, but the roundhouse is comparable to a Middle Bronze Age example found at the nearby Cleevelands site. The pits are of unknown function. Later remains comprised ditches which lacked datable finds, but which may have formed a continuation of Late Iron Age and Roman enclosures, trackways and boundaries found at the nearby Cleevelands and Stoke Road sites, to west and south-west respectively. The latest remains were plough furrows, probably of post-medieval date, and a pit containing a donkey or pony skeleton found with 19th-century horseshoes and a sherd of 18th to 19th-century pottery.
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Author:		 Jonathan Hart
Lauren Wilson ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2023
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Parish: Bishop's Cleeve
County: Gloucestershire
District: Tewkesbury
Country: England
Grid Reference: 395463, 228289 (Easting, Northing)
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PIT (Monument Type England)
DITCH (Monument Type England)
ROMAN TRACKWAY (Tag)
EARLY NEOLITHIC PIT (Tag)
TRACKWAY (Monument Type England)
EXCAVATION (Event)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE CREMATION GRAVE (Tag)
POST MEDIEVAL ANIMAL BURIAL (Tag)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE POST BUILT STRUCTURE (Tag)
POST HOLE (Monument Type England)
ANIMAL BURIAL (Monument Type England)
RIDGE AND FURROW (Monument Type England)
CREMATION GRAVE (Monument Type England)
POST BUILT STRUCTURE (Monument Type England)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE DITCH (Tag)
IRON AGE TRACKWAY (Tag)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE PIT (Tag)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE POST HOLE (Tag)
POST MEDIEVAL RIDGE AND FURROW (Tag)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-522499
Report id: CR1083_1
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Created Date:		 12 Feb 2024