A search of fields in the Slad Valley where developers want to build 140 new homes has revealed ‘two small enclosures which might represent areas of later prehistoric or Roman settlement’, Gloucestershire County Council has said.
Archaeologists have been excavating Baxter’s Field on behalf of developer Gladman after Stroud District Council turned down its application to build on the site.
One of the refusal reasons was the firm’s failure to conduct a thorough archaeological assessment.
It has been suggested that the discovery of the enclosures could scupper the development but campaigners are being careful not to get their hopes up, with Gladman having already launched an appeal.
Phil Coysh, of Slad Valley Action Group, said campaigners were taking a ‘keen interest’ in the search but were continuing to prepare their defence for the appeal on the basis of landscape heritage and sustainability issues.
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