Prehistoric and Medieval Occupation at Moreton-in-Marsh and Bishop’s Cleeve

The sites at Blenheim Farm, Moreton-in-Marsh and Church Road, Bishop’s Cleeve, provide significant evidence for settlement and occupation during the prehistoric and the medieval periods. Both also provide some evidence for other periods, particularly the Romano-British period (including a field system and what are interpreted as stock-rearing enclosures at Blenheim Farm). However, the sites lack features such as the remains of buildings or storage pits that represent actual settlement. Very little archaeological fieldwork has been undertaken previously in and around Moreton-in-Marsh, but extensive development in recent years in and around Bishop’s Cleeve has resulted in a number of significant excavations, many of which are now published (including those to the south of Church Road undertaken in 1998 and 2004, reported on within the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society no. 125).

Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No. 5.