Upper Slaughter

Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.

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'Upper Slaughter', in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, (London, 1976) pp. 123. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/p123 [accessed 29 March 2024]

UPPER SLAUGHTER

(16 miles N.E. of Cirencester)

Ryknild Street passed through the parish, but no remains have been found. Four Roman coins of 1st to 3rd-century date, now in the Royce Collection in Bristol City Museum, were found in the arable field W. of Granny's Bank, SP 162247; (fn. 1) as yet nothing else has been found in that place.

Numerous burials and a lead coffin have been noted W. of 'Beggy Hill Way', perhaps near SP 157228. (fn. 2)

Various finds have been made at imprecise points on Copse Hill. Iron Age pottery, a bone comb and bone 'points' from the area are in the Royce Collection. (fn. 3) Seven graves with associated Romano-British and possibly earlier pottery were found before 1875 during quarrying at about SP 164235. A contracted burial was found in a circular stone-cut pit S.W. of Copse Hill. (fn. 4)

(1) Romano-British Building (SP 13262344), S.E. of New Buildings, is possibly that referred to as caestello in a Saxon charter (Sawyer, 1304). The site, identified by Mrs. H. E. O'Neil, has been ploughed out.

Grundy (1935–6), 172–5.

Footnotes

  • 1. TBGAS, 83 (1964), 12.
  • 2. Gent. Mag. XVI (1864), 365. TBGAS, VII (1882/3), 79.
  • 3. TBGAS, 83 (1964), 11.
  • 4. TBGAS, VII (1822/3), 77–80.