Coln St. Dennis

Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.

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COLN ST. DENNIS

(7 miles N.N.E. of Cirencester)

The Foss Way forms the W. boundary of the parish. Lysons notes the discovery of Roman coins in the immediate vicinity of a barrow, (fn. 1) but the position of the barrow itself is not known.

(1) Enclosures and Linear Ditches (SP 074088), undated, show as crop-marks extending over some 40 acres on the plain, ½ mile S.E. of Foss Cross. Enclosure 'a', covering about 2/3 acre, has gaps in the two rounded ends and in each side near the N. end. The other cropmarks are ill defined.

N.M.R., OAP SP 0708/1/382.

Footnotes

  • 1. . Lysons, The Romans in Gloucestershire (1860), 56.