Fieldwork commenced with the removal of topsoil and subsoil from the excavation area by mechanical excavator with a toothless grading bucket, under archaeological supervision. The impact area was stripped in a succession of phases (1-6), integrated within the schedule of the building programme. The archaeological features thus exposed were hand-excavated to the bottom of archaeological stratigraphy. All funerary/ritual activity and domestic/industrial deposits were 100% excavated. All discrete features (postholes, pits) were 50% sampled by hand excavation unless their common/repetitious nature suggested that they were unlikely to yield significant new information. All linear features (ditches, pathways etc.) were sampled to a minimum of 20%. Bulk horizontal deposits were as a minimum 10% by area hand excavated, after which a decision was taken (in conjunction with the Archaeological Consultant and Gloucestershire County Archaeologist, or representative) to remove the remainder with machinery. A programme of archaeological investigation was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology between January 2011 and October 2012 at the request of Kier Partnership Homes (on behalf of MMC Estates) on land south of Lakeside Avenue, Tutnalls, Lydney, Gloucestershire, in advance of residential development. In compliance with an approved WSI (CA 2010), and in the light of the results of two field evaluations (CA 2004b, CA 2009) a targeted area was excavated across the development site. Three principal periods of occupation/activity were identified, the earliest being the remains of a unenclosed mound or barrow, containing 22 cremations, three of them contained in collared urns of Middle Bronze Age date. Towards the centre of the mound a probable cist containing an unurned cremation, surrounded by three pitched stone slabs and covered by a larger capstone. Several other features in the vicinity could possibly be contemporary with the barrow. A further possible cist of possible Bronze Age date was identified in Area 4, and a small pit of Early Bronze Age/beaker date. The second period dated to the late Iron Age was represented by a subrectangular domestic enclosure containing numerous postholes and pits, probably representing a domestic farmstead. The presence of quantities of metallurgical debris within Iron Age contexts suggest that this settlement was involved in iron production, if not on this actual site. The third and final period saw the development of the Iron Age enclos...