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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'Wyck Rissington', in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, (London, 1976) pp. 135. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/p135 [accessed 25 April 2024]
WYCK RISSINGTON
(16 miles N.E. of Cirencester)
As well as the evidence for Romano-British occupation noted below, isolated finds of Roman material are recorded at three points, none of them apparently associated with structures and only one of them (b) fairly closely located. They are as follows:
a. Several Roman coins (fn. 1) were found in the garden of Heath Hill House (SP 18472278), ½ mile E. of the Chessels settlement, Lower Slaughter (1).
b. Sherds of coarse Romano-British, mediaeval and later pottery (fn. 2) were found under a house extension at the N.W. end of the village (SP 18782181).
c. Fragments of samian and coarse ware (fn. 3) were found N. of Wyckhill House (around SP 196225); see map, p. 66, s.v. Icomb.
(1) Settlement (SP 193208), Romano-British, is indicated by a spread of broken limestone slabs and of 2nd to 4th-century pottery, including samian, calcitegritted ware and mortaria, in arable. The limestone slabs, which must denote former building as the site is on a flat spur of the Middle Lias, lie around the 600-ft. contour, on the E. side of the Dikler valley. On this side of the valley the spring-line breaks out along the 700-ft. contour, where the Upper Lias meets the Oolite.
TBGAS, 87 (1968), 205, No. 16.