HER 450 DESCRIPTION:- Dryhill Roman Villa, Badgeworth. Scheduled Monument Description:- Not Avaliable The villa was excavated by W H Gomonde and Capt. Bell about 1849 and found to consist of 12 rooms, the largest 27 foot (8.3m) by 16 foot 8 inches (5m). There was a hypocaust, but no tessellated pavements discovered. Finds included coins from Tetricus to Valens and a tile stamped PRC (possible a mis-reading of RPG). Witts found large quantities of pottery including imitation Samian ware, in 1879. All finds appear to be lost. {Source Work 862.} Under pasture OS siting accepted, although the extent of the remains is uncertain. 62m W of this siting, a spread of stone, Roman pottery, a coin and plum-bob were recently found by someone using a metal detector on a levelled area, said by the local farmer to be the villa site. This cannot be verified without further excavation or ploughing. Gomande's map too vague. {Source Work 862.} Oolite stone walls up to 3 feet high - of corridor building. {Source Work 1701.} Coins from Constantine I to Valens under disturbed floor of Room 9. {Source Work 3807.} Various finds made at SO931168, found during ploughing, are in Gloucester City Museum - coins and pottery, brooch etc {Source Work 902.}. 4th century AE3 coins; a dolphin brooch: collingwood group H - late 1st-mid 2nd century; Samian form 37; necked jar in calcite-gritted ware; corinated decorated bowl-grey ware {Sourcde Work 902.} Assuming that the villa site is as stated on OS 6" map it is now under cultivation for cabbages. {Source Work 470.} Several small cropmarks visible. {Source Work 599.} Little visible remains, except a slight mound. Line of cattle enclosure thought to be associated with it runs through Short Wood. Roughly excavated in 1849, tile from Colchester found. 3rd and 4th century coins and description of cattle enclosure, examined by Mrs Clifford in 1958. {Source Work 599.} AREA ASSESSMENT :- All site ploughed. {Source Work 470.} AREA MANAGEMENT :- Fully ploughed but does not mean site not suitable for further study. {Source Work 305.} ('PRN 8417' quoted on SMR Amendment sheet but not located or verified. TG 17/12/2002.) 2021- (Pers Comm Tongue J) A heritage and landscape study was undertaken due to the A417 missing link road scheme, this did not get and individual event but was seen as a point in time study. Looking at the wider landscape in the Birdlip area. This report addresses the historic character and significance of the landscape around National Highways’ proposal for a 3.4 mile (5.5km) length of new dual carriageway and associated infrastructure, to enable the movement of traffic along a currently congested length of the A417/419 between the Brockworth and Cowley roundabouts. It seeks to better understand the landscape as the result of the interaction of human and natural factors over millenia, in order to provide context to National Highways’ aim to ‘create a landscape-led highwaysimprovement scheme’, through: • demonstrating a unified approach to interpreting and mapping the historic and natural character of the landscape, in relationship to designated and non-designated heritage and natural assets • comparing and contrasting the evaluation undertaken with the summary conclusions produced in the Development Consent Order (DCO) Environmental Statement (as set out in Chapter 6 Cultural Heritage and Environmental Statement Appendix 6.3 Historic Landscape Characterisation) • assessing and considering what mitigation could be developed to respond to the envisaged impact, focusing specifically on areas where the commissioned assessment of impact is greater than that of Highways England’s consultants. In order to do this: • the Environmental Statement has been reviewed • the Gloucestershire and Cotswolds Historic Landscape Characterisation has been subject to analysis, and has been simplified so that it serves as a strategic framework for understanding the variety of heritage and natural assets within it • the significance of heritage assets, as ranked in the Environmental Statement, has been assessed • finally, this report has considered the sensitivity of the historic landscape to the predictable effects of the principal elements of the proposed road scheme as set out by National Highways. The emphasis in this report is on the provision of text in order to articulate and better understand the historic landscape context for the area around the scheme. GIS shape files and Historic Environment Record data for the study area assessed in this report have been submitted as a project archive, but due to resource constraints maps have either used existing data or sought to interpret key areas of the landscape around the scheme. Conclusions With the information contained within the ES, submitted by National Highways, the Examining Authority and the Secretary of State do not have a full and appropriate assessment of the landscape significance, which is fundamental to the setting of Crickley Hill and other heritage assets (as set out in 5.128 of the National Policy Statement for National Networks, 2014). The SOS will thus be unable to confirm with full clarity that harm has been avoided or minimised (5.129 of the National Policy Statement for National Networks, 2014). {Source Work 18157 & 18158.} |