Glevensis Gloucester and District Archaeological Research Group Review No 38 2005 + GLEVEN SIS THE GLOUCES TER AND DIS TRICT AR CHAEOLOGI CAL RE SEARCH GROUP ANNUAL RE VIEW Edi to rial Com mit tee Mar tin Ec cle stone Les Com tesse David Al dred Rus sell Howes CON TENTS Page KATE HASLEM 1949- 2004 ii HON. SECRETARY’S REPORT TO THE 2005 AGM By Mar tin Ecclestone 1 NEO LITHIC PITS AT KING’S STAN LEY, GLOUCES TER SHIRE - AN IN TERIM RE PORT 2 By David C Evans NATU RAL AND MAN- MADE ERO SION OF THE HIGH BROTHE RIDGE EARTH WORKS 5 By Har old Wing ham RAND WICK LONG BAR ROW By Mar tin Ec cle stone 6 EX CA VA TION OF A LATE ROMANO- BRITISH CEME TERY By Rod ney Pringle 7 RE SIS TIV ITY SUR VEYS AR CHIVE By Ann Maxwell 12 FROCES TER COURT EX CA VA TIONS 2004 By Ed die Price 13 MAGNA CARTA AND TWO SHERIFFS OF GLOUCES TER SHIRE By Rus sell Howes 15 THE SITE OF KIN LEY CHAPEL AND CHAN TRY: PART 2 By Mar tin Ecclestone 21 IDEN TI FY ING SOME 12TH CEN TURY LAND HOLD INGS IN FROCES TER By Ed die Price 29 SUR VEY OF 18th CEN TURY COP PER SLAG BLOCKS By Ni gel Spry 32 THE DARKE FAMILY AND ITS ME MO RI ALS IN AL STONE CHURCH 33 By Wil liam Kyle and Bruce Watson RE CE NT AR CHAEO LOGI CAL WORK IN GLOUCES TER 38 By An nette Han cocks (Cotswold Archae ology) HON TREAS UR ER’S RE PORT FOR YEAR END ING 28 FEB RU ARY 2005 By An gela New combe 41 COVER Clois ters of Much Wen lock Pri ory, vis ited by GA DARG in sum mer 2005 Maps on pages 5,8 & 24 are repro duced from Ordnance Survey maps by kind permission of the Ordnance Survey © 2005 The Glouces ter and Dis trict Ar chaeo logi cal Re search Group and in di vid ual authors. Any state ment made or opin ions ex pressed in the Re view are those of the con tribu tors alone, for which the group does not ac cept re spon si bil ity. Cop ies of this issue £3.00 (£4.00 by post in UK) and back num bers - is sue No 37 at £2.00 and all other avail able is sues at £1.00 each (plus post age) - can be ob tained from the Hon Sec re tary (M Ec cle stone) Pub lished by the Glouces ter and Dis trict Ar chaeo logi cal Re search Group Reg Char ity 252290 Printed by Fleet Graphs, Tewkesbury (01684 291002) www.gadarg.org.uk ISSN: 0307 - 210X KATE HASLEM 1949-2004 The saddest event for Glouces ter shire’s local history Local government was re-organisation in 1974 and community in 2004 was the untimely death of Kate Kate swapped her post of City and Diocesan Archivist Haslem at a tragi cally early age. She was widely at the Library for Searchroom Archivist at the Record known for here role as the helpful, enthu si astic and Office to help the public with their enquiries. In knowl edgeable Searchroom Super visor at the October the following year, she wed “this rather nice Glouces ter shire Record Office where she also had librarian” and became Mrs Jim Haslem. Together they particular respon si bility for IT devel opment. went on to share 29 years of happy marriage. They lived at Oakwood, a fine timber- framed house in Kate Collins was born at Letch worth, Herts. and after Newent backed by an extensive garden and vegetable attending the local Grammar school she studied plots, that they spent many pleasant hours together classics at Bristol University, gradu ating in 1970. She maintaining. At his retirement Jim set himself up as a was already active in archae ology, having dug at the book dealer - an absorbing hobby which Kate was able Latimer villa site with another GADARG member, the to share, though perhaps Kate greatest interest was in late Arthur Dodd, adven turous cooking; invita tions to eat at Oakwood were always eagerly accepted. In 1970 she became an Archive Trainee at Gloucester Library, an appointment she later claimed was more to The last few years of Kate’s life, as she underwent do with being able to play skittles, than with any other therapy at Cheltenham, were borne with quiet resil ience skills she could offer. Colleagues at the Record Office and courage. She died peace fully at home on 3 provided training to become a ‘real’ archivist, and she December 2004. A Humanist Funeral Celebration of spent a quali fying year of study at Aberystwyth. her life was held on December 13. It was no surprise Having joined GADARG she became a dedicated that it was so well attended, and donations to the digger at the Group’s early-1970s excavation at St Macmillan Nurses in Kate’s memory amounted to over Mary’s Street, and later at the city’s Archae ology Unit £1150. Kate will be greatly missed by those who knew sites. Early in 1975 she spent three month digging at her profes sionally, but especially by all those who were Carthage with Henry Hurst. Kate joined the Group’s fortunate to count her as a dear friend. Our sympa thies Committee and for two years (1975-76), with are extended to her husband Jim. charac ter istic efficiency, she was its Secretary. Ni gel Spry, Phil & Gill Moss II GLEVEN SIS 38 2005 HON. SECRETARY’S REPORT TO THE 2005 AGM Mar tin Ecclestone I want to begin my report this year by thanking our medieval metalwork in England. It is therefore most member Nicholas Kingsley, who was the County unfor tunate that the National Council of MD clubs still Archivist and is now about to take up his new advises members not to provide 6 figure grid refer ences. respon si bilities at National Archives, as head of It is also clear that MD rallies on unscheduled sites can National Advisory Services and Secretary of the be very harmful. For example, a rally at Marston Moor in Historical Manuscripts Commision. His gener osity 2003 removed most of the evidence for the battle, though in making this lecture room available for our more careful work at Naseby and Towton has accurately Gloucester meetings has led to a welcome increase in located the areas of conflict. the numbers attending our winter lectures, which I hope will continue. It is a great pity that more of our members During the year two of our most respected members do not come to hear the often memorable lectures - such died, Odette Wylie and Kate Haslem. An obituary of as those by Jon Hoyle on the Forest of Dean survey, and Mrs Wylie by Henry Hurst was published in Glevensis Philip Toms on dating methods. I’m speaking to the 37; the BGAS Newsletter carries a warm appre ciation converted, but your Committee is disturbed that only a of Mrs Haslem’s work at the Record Office, where she small proportion of our members are engaged in any of the helped a great number of our members. On a happier Group’s activities. note, Nigel Spry’s friends are delighted that he is now as busy as ever, after his very serious illness. His long- The Committee is rightly concerned with local and running project on the Severn-side distri bution of sometimes national affairs. The struc tural changes in slagblocks has now been published by GSIA, the Indus trial Glouces ter’s Archae ology and Museums Service are Archae ology Society whose Secretary, Ray Wilson, we now largely in place, after two years of discussion to are pleased to have with us this evening. I should also which we contributed. We must hope that future work record our thanks to Julien Parsons of Cheltenham on Glouces ter’s important archaeo logical heritage will Museum, now the Curator of Antiq uities at the Royal be well managed, effective and properly published, Albert Museum in Exeter, who often helped our within the financial constraints that are unavoidable. members. In the end, the proper financing of museums and archae ology depends on persuading the public of their Paul Bevan and other Group members were involved in intrinsic value, and in this context it is depressing that the ‘Time Team’ event at Standish last August, which I the school curriculum appears to be narrowing, rather personally felt produced an excellent TV programme, than becoming broader. that featured Eddie Price giving good advice to Phil Harding on the effects of ridge and furrow ploughing. During the year our resis tivity equipment was Their archaeo logical techniques are sometimes criti cized, upgraded, the cost being largely met by a donation from but a lot more is now known about Iron Age settlement in Leckhampton Local History Society for work done by this area and the evidence that still survives in field Terry Moore- Scott. Seven projects have made use of boundaries. the equipment, all organised by Committee members. We would welcome enquiries from any members who Finally, I should record that the Group currently has would like training to carry out their own work. We 206 members, of whom 24 are Associates and one is a have also completed an earthwork survey of a site in Junior. Hartpury. It is now 15 months since Kurt Adams became our local Finds Liaison Officer working under the Portable Antiq uities Scheme.