LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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HER: Gloucestershire 11905 (None)
NMR: None (1051774)
SM: None
NGR: SP 1941 2595
X: 419410 Y: 225950 (OSGB36)
Private development in NE Stow-on-the-Wold 1991 (Parry 1994) found S edge of two sections of ditch, c. 1.7m-2m deep and 4.3m wide and another c. 6m across, aligned with property boundaries. Watching brief of trench Gloucestershire CC 1992. Two C14 dates from animal bone from fill of first ditch suggests filled during the middle, or earlier, part of late Bronze Age. Same context produced single sherd of middle to late Bronze Age pottery dated to the middle-late Bronze Age transition. No dating from N ditch. Hilltop location and size of first ditch, coupled with dating evidence, possible large middle Bronze Age enclosure of Rams Hill type. Second ditch may be part of Iron Age hillfort. Site destroyed and now built-up.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Irreconciled issues
Reliability of Interpretation: Irreconciled issues
X: -191371 Y: 6787783 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -1.719117948135324 Latitude: 51.931685944861535 (EPSG:4326)
Country: England
Current County or Unitary Authority: Gloucestershire
Historic County: Gloucestershire
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Stow-on-the-Wold
Destroyed.
| Extant | ✗ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
Now built-up.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✗ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✗ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✓ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Destroyed
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✗ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: None
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: Nonem
N/A
Two C14 dates from animal bone from fill of first ditch suggests filled during the middle, or earlier, part of late Bronze Age. Same context produced single sherd of middle to late Bronze Age pottery dated to the middle-late Bronze Age transition. No dating from N ditch. Second ditch may be part of Iron Age hillfort.
Reliability: B - Medium
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✓ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✓ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
| Artefactual: | Pottery evidence. |
| C14: | Two C14 dates from animal bone from fill of first ditch suggests filled during the middle, or earlier, part of late Bronze Age. |
Watching Brief of development trench Gloucestershire CC 1992.
| Other (1992): | Watching Brief Gloucestershire CC. |
Bronze Age pottery and animal bone from ditch.
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Development trench found ditch.
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
Bronze Age pottery and animal bone from ditch.
| No Known Finds | ✗ |
| Pottery | ✓ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✓ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None defined.
| 0: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
S edge of two sections of ditch, c. 1.7m-2m deep and 4.3m wide and another c. 6m across, aligned with property boundaries.
| Area 1: | Noneha. |
| Total: | Noneha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | Area not defined. |
| ✗ | Suggested by ditches |
| NE Quadrant: | None |
| SE Quadrant: | 2 |
| SW Quadrant: | None |
| NW Quadrant: | None |
| Total: | 2 |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✓ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
Built up.
| None | ✓ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Watching Brief of development trench. S edge of two sections of ditch, c. 1.7m-2m deep and 4.3m wide and another c. 6m across, aligned with property boundaries. Bank not defined.
| None | ✓ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | Watching Brief of development trench. S edge of two sections of ditch, c. 1.7m-2m deep and 4.3m wide and another c. 6m across, aligned with property boundaries. |
Number of Ditches: 2
| ✗ | None |
Clapham, V. (Ed) 2000. Stow-On-The-Wold: Glimpses of the Past.
Parry, C. 1994. "Ellacott", Camp Gardens, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire: Report on Archaeological Observations and Excavation, 1991-2. Unpublished report, Gloucestershire County Council, Archaeology Section.
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