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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'Naunton', in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, (London, 1976) pp. 84-85. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/pp84-85 [accessed 27 April 2024]
NAUNTON
(15 miles N.N.E. of Cirencester)
Stanborough Lane, partly followed by the S. boundary of the parish, is referred to as straet in a charter of 737–40 which survives in an 11th-century text. (fn. 1) During construction of the railway, in 1876, two Romano-British burials 'edged round with stones' were found at about SP 099215, some 300 yds. N. of Stanborough Lane and 2 miles S.W. of the village. (fn. 2) Much Roman pottery was noted in the area.
(1) Probable Romano-British Settlement (SP 120245), at Summerhill, 1 mile N.E. of the village, ploughed out, lies on level ground at 750 ft. above O.D., above a slope which falls gently S. to the R. Windrush.
Dobunnic and Roman coins, pottery and tiles are recorded. The silver Dobunnic coins, uninscribed, include two (Allen's class A), now in Bristol City Museum; two more (classes B ii and E), probably from this site, are in a private collection. Roman coins recorded at Gloucester City Museum include two of 2nd and 3rd-century date.
In 1934 an undated burial with head to W. was discovered at SP 12012461, in a grave paved and lined with limestone slabs.
E. F. Eales, Naunton upon Cotswold (1928). TBGAS, 56 (1934), 129–31; 86 (1967), 193–4. Bagendon, 89, 120–1.
(2) Enclosure (SP 11042105), undated, shows as a cropmark N. of Stanborough Lane. For plan, see p. 88, s.v. Notgrove.
N.M.R., OAP SP 1020/1/367.