Cotswold Archaeology was strongly represented at this year’s Committee for Archaeology in Gloucestershire’s annual symposium, ‘Archaeology in Gloucestershire: Reports on Recent Projects’, held at Gloucester Guildhall on Saturday 8th October. CA provided three of the day’s eight speakers, as well as much of the subject matter for another talk: Gloucester City Archaeologist Andrew Armstrong’s presentation on Gloucester Castle.
Simon Sworn kicked the day off with a lively presentation on our multi-phase excavations at Siddington Road, just outside Cirencester. All periods from early prehistoric to Anglo-Saxon featured at this site, with the notable exception of the Romans – somewhat surprising given its proximity to Roman Corinium. Martin Watts attempted to keep the audience awake after lunch with an update on our work at Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucester, including the recent discovery that timber-studded upper floor of the medieval Range was once jettied, and most probably originally from another building. Daniel Sausins (pictured below) brought the day to a conclusion with his account of our Late Iron Age and Roman excavations at Stratford Road, Mickleton, sending the audience (who numbered about 75) home happy with pictures of cold, wet archaeologists toiling through the rain, mud and snow of a North Cotswolds winter.
