King's Meadow Retail Park, Cirencester

The OAU excavated eleven evaluation trenches on behalf of Bannertown Development Ltd in advance of a proposed retail development. The evaluation was carried out according to a written scheme of investigation approved by Gloucestershire County Council on behalf of the local Planning Authority. There were no man-made features located in any of the trenches on the site apart from two modern ?flax retting pits and an adjacent ditch. No significant archaeological deposits were located. Palaeo-environment samples were taken to elucidate the sequence of channels, horizons an the possible flax retting pits.