Keyword: gravel quarry archaeology

Horcott Quarry, Fairford and Arkell’s Land, Kempsford

Chris Hayden et al.

Excavations at Horcott revealed Mesolithic activity, a major Iron Age settlement with exceptional grain-storage structures, a Roman farmstead, a 3rd–4th-century cemetery, and a large Anglo-Saxon settlement. Nearby Arkell’s land saw only Roman-period enclosures and fields, likely linked to Claydon Pike, and no later occupation. READ MORE

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