Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information

SMR Number

SU26SE304

Site Name

Castle Copse

Grid Ref

SU28436291

Parish

Great Bedwyn

Photographs

Images for Great Bedwyn (if available)

District

Kennet

Site Type

Building

Period

Romano-British

Scheduled Monument

AM916

Finds

Ceramic tile; Lead; Ceramics; Worked stone; Worked metal

X Y Grid Ref

428430, 162910

Altitude

152.4 metres

Geology

Reading Beds

Description

A Romano-British villa site excavated in 1983-4.

Details

A villa site with a pavement. Finds include a finger ring, a figure of a cock, a bowl of a spoon, a twisted bracelet, 4 other rings, pottery and an antoninanus of Gallenus. Excavated by E Hostetter in 1983-4. Further excavations throughout 1980s - site now published, Hostetter & Howe 1997. 59 coins came from the excavation.

Sources

Victoria County History 1 1 73 1957 Grinsell, L.V.

Devizes Museum 11.54.158 1854 Lukis, W C

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 1, p352

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 6, p256 1854 Lukis, W C

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 35, p406

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 45, p174

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 48, p318-20 ER POLE: FC WARREN

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 56, p183

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 79, p233-5 E HOSTETTER

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 80 p97-102

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 81, p52-6

Devizes Museum Cat2 51-2 Nos 400-416 1911 Cunnington, M E; Goddard, E H

Devizes Museum Cat3 196-7 Nos 400 & 406 & 407 & 413 1934 Cunnington, M E; Goddard, E H

c1800 Plan in Wilts & Swindon Record office Wro 383.907 1800

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