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The fieldwork was undertaken in two phases. Trenches 1 and the southern extent of Trench 2 (2A) were excavated in February 2019 as Phase 1, with the remainder of Trench 2 (2B) and Trench 3 being excavated as Phase 2 in May 2019 following the demolition of Sherborne House. Trenches 1 and 2 measured 25m in length, however 3m at the south-eastern end of Trench 2 was halted due to the presence of buried services. Trench 3 measured 21m in length due to the presence of live services. An archaeological evaluation was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology in February and May 2019 at Sherborne House, Sherborne Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire. Three trenches were excavated. Close to the south-eastern extent of the site a brick culvert, aligned north-east/south-west, was observed. The culvert had collapsed but appeared to have originally been circular shape in construction. This culvert followed the original alignment of Sherborne Street as observed on historic mapping between 1886 and 1955, before the street was re-aligned in the later 20th century Modern truncation was observed during the current works that are most probably associated with the recently demolished Sherborne House and also with a former engineering works. |
