Somerford Keynes (grid reference SU019952) is a small village in Gloucestershire, close to the River Thames and Thames Path a couple of miles from its source and close to the Cotswold Water Park. It lies on the Wiltshire / Gloucestershire border midway between Cirencester, Swindon and Malmesbury.
Somerford Keynes is also the name of a character in the Rutshire Chronicles books by Jilly Cooper.
A series of salvage excavations at Spratsgate Lane fr...
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Somerford Keynes (grid reference SU019952) is a small village in Gloucestershire, close to the River Thames and Thames Path a couple of miles from its source and close to the Cotswold Water Park. It lies on the Wiltshire / Gloucestershire border midway between Cirencester, Swindon and Malmesbury.
Somerford Keynes is also the name of a character in the Rutshire Chronicles books by Jilly Cooper.
A series of salvage excavations at Spratsgate Lane from 1986 to 1988, before the creation of the Cotswold Water Park, revealed part of an Iron Age and Roman settlement at Somerford Keynes. The earliest features discovered comprised a series of curvilinear enclosures dating from the early 1st century AD to the early 2nd century AD, which may have been part of a farmstead. A religious focus is also hinted at by an unusually large number of coins and brooches, which may have been votive deposits. Stone sculptural fragments were found of an eagle and a shield. These may have belonged to a...
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