Evaluating and enhancing the geoarchaeological resource of the Lower Severn Valley

This is a collaborative project undertaken between two local authority archaeology services, those of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire County Councils, and two universities, those at Birmingham and Southampton. The projects primary aim is to improve methodological approaches and baseline information underpinning strategic planning, individual application decisions and evaluation and mitigation strategies relating to mineral extraction in the Lower Severn Valley. The project area has been designed to encompass both the active, and anticipated increasing, large-scale extraction of aggregates along a 50km stretch of the Lower Severn Valley, from Stourport to below Gloucester.