Excavations at Gloucester, 1968–1971: First Interim Report
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Antiquaries Journal
- Vol. 52 (1) , 24-69
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500020138
Abstract
Summary The 1968–71 excavations have produced a large body of information bearing on Roman Gloucester's development from legionary fortress to chartered city. It has proved possible to correlate Roman building sequences in different parts of the city. A building period which may be associated with the foundation of the colonia has been extensively excavated. The Roman forum has been discovered in a position equivalent to that of the principia of a fortress. Knowledge of the city's defences in both Roman and later periods has been amplified by work on three sides of the Roman circuit. Late Saxon use of the Roman wall is suggested and late Saxon buildings fronting Southgate Street have been discovered. At 13–17 Berkeley Street the first extensive excavation of medieval levels in the city has revealed a length of street fronted by late eleventh–fourteenth-century buildings.Keywords
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