Images from Archaeological Investigations along Cirencester to Fairford Electricity Cable Installation, 2016

This collection comprises images from archaeological investigations undertaken by AC archaeology from May to September 2016 during groundworks for a buried 33kv electricity cable route running from a substation to the south-west of Cirencester to a substation to the west of Fairford, Gloucestershire. Stripping of the easement for the cable trench revealed archaeological features in three main areas: a small Romano-British cemetery, probably related to a known villa site at Harnhill, Driffield; a cemetery of Saxon date at Meysey Hampton; and medieval and post-medieval activity in the environs of Siddington village. In addition, there was dispersed evidence for prehistoric, mostly Bronze Age and Iron Age, and Romano-British use of the landscape, largely in the form of ditches and pits, although there was little to indicate that the route crossed settlement sites of these dates.