Excavations at Nos. 1 and 30 Westgate Street, Gloucester: The Roman Levels

Abstract

1 Westgate Street is close to the central crossroads of Gloucester (FIG. 1). The site straddles the line of the main Roman E.-W. street, and is directly in front of the second-century forum. The Roman street alignment is not preserved in the medieval and modern Westgate Street, which has shifted north so that the line of Westgate Street, in its course down to the river crossing, occupies the site of several Roman insulae. The other three main Roman streets, Northgate, Eastgate and Southgate Streets, still run approximately on Roman lines, probably because their course was conditioned by the position of the gates.