Desk based assessment to determine the potential impact of the proposed development on the historic environment by analysis of previous sources and a site visit. Avon Archaeology Limited were commissioned by Tewkesbury Borough Council to undertake an archaeological desk-based assessment relating to a site on the south-eastern side of Back Lane, Winchcombe, centred on SP 02376 28461. It has been proposed by Tewkesbury Borough Council to install new EV charging points in the existing car park. A special concern is the location of the site within a Scheduled Monument. A search of the local authority HER for a radius of 350m around the site was undertaken specifically for the purposes of this study, and has been included as both maps, and a textual Appendix. The relevant items are discussed in the text. The site lies within the Scheduled Monument of Winchcombe Abbey, and also within the defended enclosure of the Saxon and medieval town. Both the Abbey precinct and the town burgh defences ran along the south side of Back Lane, with the former returning to run south down Cowl Lane. The site lay in the northern area of the precinct, in an area probably used for fishponds. There is considered to be potential for currently unrecorded remains of both early medieval and medieval date.
Jocelyn Davis (Wed,) studied this question.