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Cirencester, 1961. Second Interim Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

John S. Wacher
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During 1961 the Cirencester Excavation Committee was faced with three major rescue excavations. Two development sites, for convenience called Leaholme Gardens, lay south of The Avenue, which crosses the heart of the Roman town, while the third lay north of Ashcroft Road, in an area well known for discoveries of mosaic pavements. Excavations were carried out for three weeks at Easter and for nine weeks during the summer. The Committee records its grateful thanks to each of those bodies which gave in all a very large sum of money, about £2,200; to all who in a variety of capacities assisted the excavations, often, as at Easter, in very bad weather; and to the Cirencester Urban District Council and Messrs. Mycalex Ltd. for permission to dig in Leaholme Gardens and on the Ashcroft Road site respectively. At Easter an L-shaped site, east of Leaholme House, was examined, covering the west end of the basilica, first discovered by our Fellow, Mr. Wilfrid Cripps, in 1898, and the corners of Insulae V and VI divided by Ermin Street and lying to the south of the basilica. In the summer the second site in Leaholme Gardens, west of that already described, was examined and proved to include the corner of Insula II, while beneath both sites conclusive structural evidence of an early military occupation was found.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 1962 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1962

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page 1 note 1 Those that contributed were: The Society of Antiquaries of London; H.M. Ministry of Works; Cirencester Urban District Council; Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society; the Haverfield Trust and the Craven Fund of the University of Oxford; the University of Leicester; Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society; Messrs. Mycalex and T.I.M. Ltd.

page 1 note 2 To Mrs. A. Wacher, Misses S. Johnson, C. Mahany, R. Dunnett, M. Rennie and Messrs. A. McWhirr, A. Poole, M. Hassall, who acted as site-supervisors. Mr. A. L. Pacitto was again the photographer and Mrs. H. J. M. Petty was in charge of the pottery shed. Mr. H. J. M. Petty, F.S.A., dealt with the accounts and made the employment of direct labour possible for the first time. Members of the Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society provided a service of guides for the public and also looked after the catering, Also to Mr. Richard Reece, who at short notice undertook the complete supervision of the Ashcroft Road site.

page 1 note 3 T.B.G.A.S. xxi, 70; P.S.A. xvii, 201.

page 1 note 4 J.R.S. xlii, 98.

page 3 note 1 Those of Sextus Valerius Genialis (C.I.L. vii, 68) and Dannicus (C.I.L. vii, 66).

page 3 note 2 Arch. J. cxv, 73.

page 3 note 3 Arch. lxix, 185.

page 5 note 1 Proc. Brit. Acad. xli, 306.

page 5 note 2 Unpublished information from Professor I. A. Richmond, Director.

page 7 note 1 Op. cit.

page 7 note 2 In Building V, 1; also Verulamium, Insula XIV (Antiq. Journ. xli, 74); and Catterick VII, 1 (unpublished).

page 7 note 3 At the west end of the Great Bath, where, however, the hearths were connected with the first building operations, and covered by the earliest flagged paving. Information from Professor Richmond.

page 8 note 1 P.S.A. xvii, 204.

page 9 note 1 D. Atkinson, Wroxeter 1923–27, p. 345.

page 9 note 2 J.R.S. xlix, 113.

page 9 note 3 It is probably better to refer to the type as macellum. Cf. Verulamium, Insula XVII; Arch. xc, 89; also Augst, A. Grenier, Manuel d' Archaeologie Gallo-Romaine, iii, 1, 372.

page 9 note 4 H. J. Loane, Industry and Commerce of the City of Rome (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, LVI, no. 2), pp. 116, 126.

page 11 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xxxix, fig. 2; xli, pl. xxvii.

page 13 note 1 T.B.G.A.S. xxi, 71.

page 13 note 2 Ibid., lxxviii, 44.

page 13 note 3 Corinium Museum Records.

page 13 note 4 T.B.G.A.S. lxxv, 203.

page 13 note 5 Antiq. Journ. xli, 65.

page 13 note 6 Corinium Museum Records.

page 13 note 7 Ibid.

page 13 note 8 T.B.G.A.S. xvii, 12.

page 13 note 9 Information from Mr. Peter Broxton.

page 13 note 10 K. J. Beecham, History of Cirencester, p. 251.

page 13 note 11 Arch. xcii, 135.

page 13 note 12 Rudder, Cirencester, p. 61. Also Gent. Mag. ii (1849), 358.

page 13 note 13 Corinium Museum Records.

page 13 note 14 Ibid.

page 14 note 1 Op. cit.

page 16 note 1 These tentative dates are derived partly from coin evidence and partly from the initial dating of the samian by G. Dannel and B. R. Hartley, F.S.A.

page 16 note 2 Two early Claudian sherds were, however, obtained from VI Pit C, but these hardly form a group.