Wotton - from it's earliest occupation

                                     Brackenbury Ditches Hill Fort

There is little doubt that Wotton, or at least the woods around it, were inhabited from the late Neolithic period. The remains of thee prehistoric barrows are still visible near the town: both a long and a round barrow near Symonds Hall Farm and a round barrow on Blackquarries Hill. There is more evidence for human habitation in a later period: even the most casual walker on the Cotswold Way could not fail to notice some strange ditches in the woods above Wotton. These are the remains of an Iron Age Fort, known as Brackenbury Ditches.  

The middle ages saw the growth of Wudetun into Wotton-under-Edge. The town, first mentioned in a Saxon royal charter in 940, was then listed in the Doomsday book as Vutune, a dependency of the manor of Berkeley . 

                                Part of the dig at the Roman Villa at Wortley              

In this talk John White will  look at evidence on the ground and artefacts held in various collections around the country

Wotton-under-Edge Civic Centre

Friday 31st October 2014 at 7.30pm

Visitors welcome. Non-members £5 on the door