Site Update: Redhill Farm, Gloucestershire.

Our North Midlands office have been excavating a site in Gloucestershire. The site was first identified by aerial photography and previous work had been carried out on a series of crop-marks identified in a similar way in the wider area. The area of interest for TVAS was a small 50m x 50m section of the field containing a previously unexcavated crop-mark.

The excavation revealed a ring ditch – the circluar ditch that usually surrounds a burial mound – which indicated that we were investigating a Bronze Age round barrow with a diameter of 25m. The ditch section of this barrow was c.0.5m deep and c.1.6m wide and was a complete circuit of the barrow. It is likely that the material originally dug out of the ditch was used to build the barrow mound in the centre.

Above: The ring ditch being excavated

The barrow was found to contain only a single cremation burial, which was in an large ceramic vessel. Outside of the barrow, to the south, several more truncated cremations were uncovered.

Above: Block lifted cremation ready to be carefully excavated

The site and finds are currently being analysed in preparation for a report.