Upton St. Leonards

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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'Upton St. Leonards', 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/p123a [accessed 19 March 2024]

UPTON ST. LEONARDS

(11 miles W.N.W. of Cirencester)

For earthworks on High Brotheridge, see Cranham (1). Pottery, a bill-hook, a fibula of 2nd-century type and a human skull were discovered in 1921 in the garden of Castle End Bungalow, on the N. slope of Painswick Hill at SO 86511235 (see Painswick (1)). (fn. 1)

A small quantity of abraded Romano-British pottery is recorded from St. Edmund's Hill at SO 85201405. (fn. 2)

(1) Romano-British Settlement (SO 86631588), ⅓ mile N. of Bondend, lies on a slight clay rise in the vale at about 170 ft. above O.D.

Features revealed during construction of road M5 include a T-shaped corn-drying oven partly built of reused limestone masonry, and small pits containing coarse pottery and animal bones. Finds, in Gloucester City Museum, range in date from the 2nd to the 4th centuries. Vegetable matter from the corn-drier included carbonised wheat (spelt and bread or club wheat) and 35 distinct weed species.

TBGAS, 90 (1971), 44–9.

Footnotes

  • 1. W. St. Clair Baddeley, A Cotteswold Manor (1929), 20; pl. facing p. 45. Finds in Gloucester City Museum.
  • 2. TBGAS, 90 (1971), 49–50.