Secrets Of The Past Unearthed

[Kev]

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed remains of the earliest known Roman settlement in the Five Valleys including more than a dozen human burials near Stroud.

The find, which is thought to date back to the mid-to-late 1st Century, was excavated at Fox’s Field, just off Ebley Road in Ebley, where the land is being prepared before work starts to build 200 homes.

Artefacts including a sizeable iron cleaver, a stone crop dryer and a coin dating back to around 324 AD have been discovered by Cirencester-based Cotswold Archaeology.

More evidence of even earlier activity was also found dating from within the late Neolithic, early Bronze Age and late Iron Age periods. The main discovery was that of a large rectangular enclosure approached by a well-used path leading down from nearby Doverow Hill.

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