This site represents a Roman pottery production location situated just south of modern Tewkesbury, in the lower Severn Valley near the confluence of the Severn and Avon. While not one of the well-known major regional kilns, it likely operated within the broader Severn Valley ware tradition, a coarseware industry active from the 1st through 4th centuries AD producing oxidised tablewares and storage vessels.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Severn Valley ware was a regionally dominant pottery type distributed widely across the West Midlands, the Welsh Marches, and as far as Hadrian's Wall via military supply networks, making any production site within this tradition economically significant. The Tewkesbury area sits within the productive zone supplying both rural settlements and the towns of Gloucester (Glevum) and Worcester.
This site represents a Roman pottery production location situated just south of modern Tewkesbury, in the lower Severn Valley near the confluence of the Severn and Avon. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a production site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman pottery 140m SSW of Tewkesbury Cross is classified as a Roman production site — a industrial site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Roman rural sanctuary on Groundwell Ridge, east of Lady Lane (5.6 km), Durocornovium (7.6 km), Site of Roman town, W of Wanborough House (7.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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