Cirencester, 1963. Fourth Interim Report

John S. Wacher

doi:10.1017/S0003581500062466

Cirencester, 1963. Fourth Interim Report

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John S. Wacher

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The excavations at Cirencester in the summer of 1963 were the most extensive that have so far taken place, with work continuing at the Amphitheatre and on five new sites inside the town. Also, as so often has happened in past years, yet another rescue dig had to be undertaken in October, after the main season had finished. Apart from the Amphitheatre, a site in the middle of the Forum was most generously made available by Mr. and Mrs. Constable; further information about the buildings in Parsonage Field, close to the earlier excavations of Miss K. M. Richardson, F.S.A., and Miss M. Rennie, was obtained, thanks to permission given by Gloucestershire County Council; extended knowledge of the defences on the south-west side of the town was obtained by the kind permission of the Watermoor Hospital Management Committee; problems relating to the street system were resolved in the front garden of the telephone exchange thanks to the General Post Office, and in the garden of Dyer Court thanks to Cirencester Urban District Council, who, with Lord Bathurst, also gave permission for the continuation of work at the Amphitheatre. Finally a small site in West Way produced information of Roman buildings in a hitherto unexplored area, for which permission was granted by Ardin and Brooks and Partners on behalf of their clients Messrs. Lipton's Ltd. The Excavation Committee's indebtedness to all who took part in the excavations, over ninety in number, and to all who contributed financially towards them, must be gratefully recorded.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 1964 , pp. 9 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500062466 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1964

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^{page 9 note 1} Mrs. A. Wacher, Misses E. Dowman, C. Mahany, J. Ruff and Messrs. D. Brown, A. McWhirr, A. Perkins acted as site supervisors; Mr. J. Price as photographer; while Miss M. Owers was in charge of the pottery shed. Mr. W. Blythe successfully coped with the site accounts. The Committee would also like to thank Miss S. M. Smith for undertaking at short notice the supervision of the October excavation. The Watermoor Hospital Staff Social Club most generously made their Skittle Alley available for the Excavation Headquarters.

^{page 9 note 2} Contributions were received from: the Society of Antiquaries of London; H.M. Ministry of Public Building and Works; the British Academy; Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society; the Haverfield Trust and the Craven Fund of the University of Oxford; the Royal Archaeological Institute; and from many private donors and the general public.

^{page 11 note 1} Antiq. Journ. xlii, 3; xliii, 15.

^{page 11 note 2} Ibid, xlii, 7.

^{page 11 note 3} Ibid.

^{page 12 note 1} D. Atkinson, Excavations at Wroxeter, 1923–7, p. 63.

^{page 12 note 2} Antiq. Journ. xlii, 8.

^{page 12 note 3} Op. cit., p. 84.

^{page 13 note 1} Archaeologia, lxi, 579; BBCS, xv, 160.

^{page 14 note 1} Corinium Museum Records.

^{page 14 note 2} ‘From Roman Britain to Saxon England’ in Dolley, R. H. M., Anglo-Saxon Coins (1961), 5.Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 3} J.R.S. xlix, 127.

^{page 14 note 4} Antiq. Journ. xlii, 160.

^{page 15 note 1} Ibid, xliii, 16.

^{page 15 note 2} T.B.G.A.S. xliv, 101 ff.

^{page 16 note 1} Antiq. Journ. xlii, 3.

^{page 16 note 2} Ibid, xliii, 15.

^{page 16 note 3} Archaeologia, lxix, 185.

^{page 16 note 4} Antiq. Journ. xli, 63.

^{page 16 note 5} Ibid, xliii, 22.

^{page 16 note 6} Ibid, xli, 67.

^{page 17 note 1} For earlier comments on the line of this street: ibid, xlii, 13; xliii, 16.

^{page 17 note 2} Ibid, xli, pl. XIX.

^{page 17 note 3} Cf. p. 14 above.

^{page 17 note 4} Corrected plan in Antiq. Journ. xxxvii, fig. 2.

^{page 17 note 5} Ibid, xlii, fig. I; xliii, 17.

^{page 17 note 6} T.B.G.A.S. xxi, 70; P.S.A. xvii, 201.

^{page 17 note 7} Op. cit.

^{page 17 note 8} Cf. p. 14 above.

^{page 17 note 9} Antiq. Journ. xliii, 23.

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