Excavations at I Westgate Street, Gloucester, 1975

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• See H. Hurst, ‘Excavations at Gloucester 1968–71: First Interim Report’, Antiq. J., LII (1972), 24–69; H. Hurst, ‘Excavations at Gloucester 1971–1973: Second Interim Report’, ibid., LIV (1974), 8–52.
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