Randwick

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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'Randwick', in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, (London, 1976) pp. 97. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/p97 [accessed 19 April 2024]

RANDWICK

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

Romano-British pottery from the chamber of the long barrow, Randwick I (SO 82500690), (fn. 1) is in Gloucester City Museum.

(1) Cross-ridge Dyke, in Randwick Wood, crossing the parish boundary into Standish (SO 82690710– 82780693), 700 ft. above O.D., spans the top of a narrow ridge which projects S.W. from the main Cotswold escarpment. It is 600 ft. long with no original gap. The bank averages 12 ft. in width and 2½ ft. in height; the ditch, uphill on the E., is 24 ft. wide and a further 2½ ft. deep.

Randwick. (1) Cross-ridge Dyke. Plan and profile.

Witts (1883), 42, No. 85, 'Randwick Camp'.

Footnotes

  • 1. PCNFC, VIII (1883–4), 158. TBGAS, 79 (1960), 87.