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Excavations in Parsonage Field, Watermoor Road, Cirencester, 1959

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

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In 1958 a rescue excavation was carried out by Miss Mary Rennie, on behalf of the Ministry of Works, in the southern half of Parsonage Field, off the Watermoor Road, on ground now covered by the County Health Centre. Here the remains of a Roman building of some size were partly examined and an interesting mosaic pavement of geometric design and late date was uncovered. In that same year the Cirencester Roman Excavation Committee was set up.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1962

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page 160 note 1 Journ. of Roman Studies, xlix (1959), 127.Google Scholar

page 160 note 2 I am much indebted to Capt. Stewart Gracie who made a arrangements with the contractors, to Miss Mary Rennie who acted as my second, and to Mr. Graham Webster for his valuable advice. Acknowledgement must be made of grants towards the work from the Ministry of Works, the Society of Antiquaries, the British Academy, the Haverfield Trust, the Craven Fund, the Royal Archaeological Institute, the Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society, the Cirencester Archaeologica Society, and from private donors. I would like to thank Mr. Donald Atkinson for reporting on the coins, Mr. B. R. Hart ey, Mrs. K. F. Hartley, and Dr. M. H. Callender for their notes on Samian, mortaria, and amphora stamps respectively, and Professor J. M. C. Toynbee for her note on the bronze bust. Also Prof. Richmond for reading the proofs.

page 164 note 1 See note on pitched stone foundations, p. 180.

page 164 note 2 The workmen recognized the layer of chippings and dust as ‘brash’ the waste left over after stones have been trimmed for building, the pitched stones themselves could equally well have been waste material.

page 165 note 1 See note, p. 180.

page 166 note 1 See report, p. 175 and pl. XXII d.

page 166 note 2 See note on p. 180.

page 166 note 3 See report on p. 176.

page 166 note 4 A note on these wares by Mr. E. M. Jope will be published in the Trans. Bristol and Glos. A.S.

page 167 note 1 S.G. = South Gaulish. C.G. = Central Gaulish. E.G. = East Gaulish.

page 169 note 1 All notes on mortaria are by Mrs. K. F. Hartley; on amphora stamps by Dr. M. H. Callender.

page 180 note 1 I am indebted to Mrs. H. E. O'Neil, F.S.A., for drawing my attention to the Fosse Way foundations and those of buildings excavated by her at Bourton-on-the-Water, also to Capt. H. S. Gracie, F.S.A., for kindly letting me see page proof of his report on the Frocester Romano-British building.

page 180 note 2 Trans. Bristol and Glos. A.S. lxvii (1946–8), 383.Google Scholar

page 180 note 3 Ibid. lvi (1934), 191.

page 180 note 4 Ibid. lxix (1950), 29.

page 180 note 5 Ibid. First observed by Stukeley, on the south side of Ilchester, Itinerarium Curiosum, 1776, p. 155; Trans. Bristol and Glos. A.S. liv (1932)Google Scholar, pl. 11 and ibid, lvii (1935), 280.

page 180 note 6 Trans. Bristol and Glos. A. S. lxxvii (1959), 33.Google Scholar

page 181 note 1 Oxon. i (1936), 31, pl. XIII, section.

page 181 note 2 Trans. Bristol and Glos. A.S. lxx (1951), 52.Google Scholar

page 181 note 3 Ibid. xxiii (1910), 71.

page 181 note 4 H. E. O'Neil, ‘Some features of Building Construction in Rura Areas of Roman Britain’, chap. 2, from Studies in Building History. Ed.Jope, E. M., 1961.Google Scholar

page 181 note 5 Clifford, E. M., Bagendon, a Belgic Oppidum 1961, p. 13Google Scholar, pls. XIX and XX.