The Cotswold Water Park Project is a landscape study centred upon parts
of the Upper Thames Valley within what is now the Cotswold Water Park.
The report is based upon four key excavated rural settlements, the most
extensive being that at Claydon Pike, which dated primarily from the
middle Iron Age to the late Roman period. A number of middle Saxon
burials were also found. The other Water Park settlements dated to the
late Iron Age-Roman period and the 2nd to 3rd century AD. The report has
incorporated the results of these excavations into a wider synthesis of
landscape development in the region, including aspects of material
culture, environment and the economy.