Local councillors’ report
The CRA is apolitical but local news from our elected representatives from Walcot and Lansdown seems worth passing on to their constituents. This quote also reminds me of times when we had those things called ‘dinner parties’…
So click here, if you want to hear a bit more about:
- The Cleveland Bridge works news out today
- Liveable Neighbourhoods in Walcot for which an application goes in this week
- The Ward Empowerment Fund for Walcot
- The forthcoming Clean Air Zone on March 15th
And from our Lansdown councillors on:
- Some reassuring news on the fate of the Approach golf course which we thought we might lose – maybe we need to make more use of it in future – use it, or lose it – is the saying isn’t it?
We’ve heard of the Royal and Ancient at St Andrews. Now we can report that Bath has its own Roman and Ancient… on the High Common.
During a watching brief in 2004 on irrigation works for the High Common golf course a quantity of Roman pottery and building material was encountered in two trenches. These were examined archaeologically and further demolition material was found including a column drum with a linear recess for a shutter and a socket for a locking device. The Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society was asked by the Bath Archaeological Trust to undertake a geophysical survey across the area where evidence of the Roman building had been discovered. The geophysical survey suggests that the building contained three rooms, two lager rooms flanking a smaller central one with a corridor or veranda to the front, downhill side. A short distance downhill from this building was traces of a similar sized building, it is unclear if it predates or is contemporary, and possibly a second to the north and a third, or a trackway, to the north-west. The building probably represents a farmstead with a small enclosure to the east and ancillary buildings dating to the 1st and second centuries. No wall plaster was found, but only a small area was excavated. A number of circular features, to the south and south-east, and to the north were also detected. It is possible that these represent Iron Age or early Roman timber-framed roundhouses 6 to 8m in diameter. A holloway on the 12 hole course, when projected to the north, lines up with this building. It also, when projected to the south, lines up on another Roman/Iron Age site on the Lower Common and the Fosse Way crossing point further on. ref Bath Archeological Trust.