ALB-Historic England-Gloucester Blackfriars (360G-cabinetoffice-GA-168977)

This project aims to publish the archaeological work undertaken by Kirsty Rodwell at Gloucester Blackfriars between 1987 and 2000, and to prepare and deposit some archival material from those investigations with English Heritage. Gloucester Blackfriars is one of the most complete Dominican friaries to survive in England, and has been subject of numerous archaeological investigations and surveys since the property came into guardianship in 1960, including the various works by Kirsty Rodwell. In March 2002, Kirsty Rodwell was commissioned by English Heritage to prepare a publication text of this work, and of the excavations carried out by Phil Greatorex in 1995. This was completed in draft form in 2004, but after this date Kirsty Rodwell became ill and the publication programme stalled. The project became live again in 2010 when Kirsty Rodwells publication draft and archive was made available and Cotswold Archaeology, who at the time was undertaking further archaeological work at Gloucester Blackfriars, took delivery of the publication draft and archive, including some archival material from the earlier investigations. Review of the draft text and archive has identified the tasks required to achieve the publication of the draft report, in particular the updating of the draft publication illustrations to modern standards, and deposition of the archive. Kirsty Rodwells work at Gloucester Blackfriars will be published as a stand-alone report in Cotswold Archaeologys monograph series, and the archive will be deposited with English Heritage at their Fort Brockhurst stores in Hampshire.