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BBC News
26-03-2025
- General
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More than 300 skeletons found at Gloucester's old Debenham's site
More than 300 skeletons have been found during the redevelopment of a former Debenhams site in Gloucester's Kings Square is being transformed into University of Gloucester's City Campus, which is due to open in have discovered 317 skeletons as well as numerous Roman artefacts and cobblestones which may have been part of a 2nd Century Bateman, senior project officer at Cotswold Archaeology, described the finds as "unbelievable". "The site as a whole has the potential to increase public knowledge of the Roman, medieval and post-medieval development of this part of Gloucester," Mr Bateman added. It is thought that King's Square once stood on the north-eastern quadrant of a Roman town, the Local Democracy Reporting Service the project, archaeologists have uncovered 83 brick vaults, the footings of the wall of a Roman townhouse, fragments of a 16th Century tobacco pipe, Roman pottery and pieces of a post-medieval wine bottle. Mr Bateman said there "will be Roman buildings in situ" underneath where the team discovered the post-medieval burial site. Brick-built burial vaults and a crypt associated with the 18th Century St Aldate's Church were also church, built in about 1750, replaced the original church of the same name which is thought to have pre-dated the Norman Conquest in believe the original church was demolished in the mid-17th Century after it sustained damage during the English Civil Bateman said: "Every time we work in Gloucester, we make new discoveries – it's a massively important place."
BBC News
13-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Nantwich pub's history may date back to English Civil War battle
A landlord with a keen interest in history has claimed he has uncovered evidence his pub may have existed at the time a significant Snell said The Black Lion in Nantwich, Cheshire, featured on a map which indicated it was at least 40 years older than initially Snell said he was working on getting the dates corroborated with other sources, and he had also uncovered other records which suggested the pub might date back to 1605 or that were the case it would have been standing during the Battle of Nantwich. The skirmish between the Royalists and Parliamentarians gave the latter their first big victory of the English Civil Snell said the discovery stemmed from an image of the pub that had been taken by a was posted on social media, prompting somebody to get in touch with a map dated to date on the pub's door is 1664, which many had taken to be the year when it first Snell said he believed the date might instead refer to when the door was fitted or repaired, rather than referring to the whole building."It certainly seems as though it could stem back to 1624, which is 20 years before the great Battle of Nantwich," he said. He added there were also records detailing a former landlord, with relatives buried in the early 1600s, suggesting the pub might have been standing in had long thought his predecessors might have served soldiers who fought in the town's famous battle, he told BBC Radio Stoke."It's more than likely, anyway. Sitting around, looking around, you look at the old beams and suchlike – the wattle and daub on the wall as well.""It's nice to see every year when we have the battle re-enactment, all the guys come in in full regalia and you just think 'this is so fitting for all this, it really is'." Read more Cheshire stories from the BBC and follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
