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Cirencester, 1966

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

P. D. C. Brown  and
Alan D. McWhirr
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The Cirencester Excavation Committee conducted two sets of excavations in 1966: at Easter, four weeks were spent excavating the Saxon church and an internal tower on the Roman defences; during the Summer, in a six week campaign, various development sites in the town were examined (fig. 1) and sections were cut across the seating bank of the amphitheatre.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , September 1967 , pp. 185 - 197
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1967

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page 185 note 1 In particular to Miss J. Barker for much of the organization before work started, to Mr. W. A. Blythe for managing our finances, to Miss D. M. Radway for organizing guides and a site stall, and to Mr. J. W. Elliott for advice about sites.

page 185 note 2 They were: the Society of Antiquaries of London, the British Academy, the Royal Archaeological Institute, the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, the Association for Cultural Exchange, the Craven Fund and the Haverfield Trust of the University of Oxford, and the Ministry of Public Building and Works.

page 185 note 3 By Mr. H. Pitts, the Royal Agricultural College, the Cirencester Urban District Council, and the Gloucestershire County Council.

page 185 note 4 Mrs. H. McWhirr, Misses A. Bachelier, C. Butcher, P. Cullen, and Messrs. G. Dando, C. Jessel, T. McNeill, and J. Watts supervised sites and the running of the pottery shed. Mr. R. Rumens was the photographer.

page 185 note 5 Antiq. Journ. xliii, 23, and xliv, 17.

page 188 note 1 Reported in Antiq. Journ. xlvi, 244.

page 188 note 2 Antiq. Journ. xli, 63 ff. Our survey is based upon two points of the wall, planned by Mr. Wacher; we are grateful to him for the use of his plans and for allowing us to reproduce them.

page 190 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xli, 68.

page 190 note 2 Cf. the wall face at point H, pl. XXIX and Antiq. Journ. xli, pl. XIV b.

page 190 note 3 Antiq. Journ. xli, 64.

page 191 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xli, 64.

page 191 note 2 Antiq. Journ. xliii, 22.

page 191 note 3 The buildings excavated in Parsonage Field, Insula IV, were very close to the surface and at least one wall was higher than the modern road level. Antiq. Journ. xliv, 14.

page 192 note 1 We thank Mr. Hartley for reporting on the samian so quickly.

page 192 note 2 Antiq. Journ. xliv, 15.

page 192 note 3 Antiq. Journ. xliv, 15.

page 195 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xliii, 22.

page 195 note 2 Archaeologia, lxxxiv, 232, and pl. lxxi. The diameter of the first period outer wall is only 160 feet. The figure quoted is of the fourth period outer wall.

page 195 note 3 Antiq. Journ. xlvi, 245.

page 196 note 1 This drain runs obliquely through the nave; below the crypt it turns to take up the Roman street alignment, and passes out beneath the south wall of the apse.

page 196 note 2 The area is occupied by a yew hedge that is being preserved in the layout of the park. Excavation by tunnelling was considered and dismissed as being as likely to destroy the available evidence as to recover it.