Table of Contents

Introduction and acknowledgements (Neil Holbrook); Early prehistory (Timothy Darvill); The Iron Age (Tom Moore); The Roman period (Neil Holbrook); The early Medieval period (Andrew Reynolds); East is east and west is Gloucestershire (Richard Reece); The Medieval countryside (Mark Bowden); Bristol (Robert H Jones); Gloucester (Carolyn Heighway); The view from the Gloucestershire Archaeology Service (Jan Wills); The south Gloucestershire Historic Environment Record (David R Evans); Archaeology in Gloucestershire: Looking backwards but mostly forwards (Alan Saville); Index (Susan Vaughan).

About the Author

Neil Holbrook is Chief Executive of Cotswold Archaeology, and earlier in his career he worked for the Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit between 1986 and 1989. He was co-director of the Roman Rural Settlement Project with Michael Fulford and joint series editor of the three monographs in the New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain series (2016-18).