Cura Terrae was appointed by the MGroup Ltd (the 'Principal Contractor') to undertake the archaeological trial trench evaluation works for the proposed water pipeline connecting existing services in Gloucester Road, just north of Stratton, Gloucestershire to existing services located in the footprint of a trackway to the east of Ewe Pens Farm. 24 archaeology trial trenches were excavated along the route of the water pipeline. Trench 19 identified what appears to be a Romano-British trackway with an accompanying ditch to the north of the trackway. The trackway matches results from the geophysical survey and continues west towards the Roman settlement within the same field of the Site. The two gullies of the trackway are 1.20 m apart which is roughly the average width for Roman cart wheels, with the ditch to the north likely used to help with drainage of the trackway. Trench 21 observed a ditch with an unclear purpose but may have been part of a wider field system in relation to the Romano-British settlement to the west. The rest of the trenches were blank.
Finlay Wood (Wed,) studied this question.