Excavations on the Wormington to Tirley Pipeline

Excavations on the Wormington to Tirley Pipeline, 2000.

Archaeological work in advance of pipeline construction culminated in excavation at four sites on the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border by the Carrant Brook and River Isbourne. Geophysical and cropmark evidence has been used to enhance interpretation of the excavated ‘slices’ across these sites, revealing a changing pattern of human activity and density of settlement from the Mesolithic to the medieval periods. Discoveries include a possible Early Neolithic flat grave and substantial settlement enclosures constructed in the Middle Iron Age. The settlement enclosures remained in use to the end of the 1st century AD, when an increased level of activity saw some enlarged and others abandoned or replaced. Some evidence for Anglo-Saxon and medieval activity was also identified.