Cotswold Archaeology’s excavation team at the Gloscat development site, Gloucester, under the management of Laurie Coleman and the direction of Stuart Joyce, are continuing to generate large quantities of material for our finds and environmental team to process. Amongst this material are over 400 kilos of Roman finds as well as the remains of at least 160 of the later Roman population of Gloucester. The remains are being recovered from a Roman cemetery located at the East gate of the Roman town (Glevum). Work as part of the same development has recovered a small Roman portable altar with relief decoration of a knife and adze and evidence for use in the form of scorching to the altar receptacle.
The finds are being processed by a mixture of CA staff and local volunteers, mostly from the Gloucestershire Archaeology Society. The material, paper and digital archive generated by the fieldwork will be analysed during post-excavation under the management of Mary Alexander.
Sue Clemmitt and Angie Newcombe of the Gloucestershire Archaeology Society washing some of the Gloscat finds, with Cameron Hardie (CA Finds Processor) operating an environmental sample processing tank.
Work experience student Scott Drake and archaeologist Rob Scott with Roman beads
