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Book SynopsisLyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire was excavated between mid-2012 and mid-2013 along with its surroundings and antecedent settlement. The excavations took place as part of the Emersons Green East Development Area, funded through the mechanism of commercial archaeology by Gardiner & Theobald LLP. The results of the stratigraphic analysis are given here along with specialist reports on the human remains, pottery (including thin sections), ceramic building material, small finds, coinage and iron-working waste. Six open-area excavations allowed the archaeologists the rare opportunity to trace a substantial part of the site’s layout. Three ancillary buildings within the villa compound, including a bathhouse, were excavated. Evidence of advanced water management was uncovered in the form of lead piping, ceramic drain tiles and an enigmatic stone structure built into a canalised spring line. The villa’s economy included stock raising, crop processing and iron and textile production. The settlement appears to have originated in the mid-1st century AD, or slightly earlier.
Table of ContentsEditors’ foreword ;
Chapter 1 Introduction –
Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson, and Damion Churchill ;
Chapter 2: Research objectives, methodologies and summary of results –
Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson, and Damion Churchill ;
Chapter 3: The development of the landscape before the 1st millennium AD –
Richard Newman and Robert Young with contributions by Adrian Bailey, Kimberley Colman, Lynne Gardiner, David Jackson, Mike McElligott and Megan Stoakley ;
Chapter 4: Dating the origins of the rural settlement at Lyde Green: a Late Iron Age enclosure system? –
Richard Newman and Matthew S. Hobson with contributions by Lynne Gardiner, Mike McElligott, Ed McSloy and Megan Stoakley ;
Chapter 5: The Romano-British period and the villa estate –
Mike McElligott, Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson and Megan Stoakley with contributions by Don O’Meara and Lynne Gardiner ;
Chapter 6: The Romano-British artefacts (mid-1st century AD to 5th century AD) ;
Chapter 7: The development of the landscape from the Roman period to the present day –
Richard Newman with contributions from Ed McSloy and Megan Stoakley ;
Chapter 8: Lyde Green and the Romano-British villas of South Gloucestershire –
Richard Newman ;
Chapter 9: Appendices ;
Appendix 1: Catalogue of Bronze Age pottery ;
Appendix 2: Table of radiocarbon dates ;
Appendix 3: Catalogue of decorated Samian and Samian stamps ;
Appendix 4: Petrographic report of thin-section analyses ;
Appendix 5: Fabric descriptions of ceramic building material ;
Appendix 6: XRF methodology and tables ;
Appendix 7: Methodology for analysis of the human remains ;
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