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The archeological dig at the Blackfriars site
More secrets of the priory site are unearthed as the latest archaeological dig on the site is complete - but no buried treasure was found.

From the BBC archives: Historian Alec Clifton-Taylor visited the Roman settlement of Cirencester in 1984.

We look at why Ivor Gurney, a composer and poet with his own blue plaque in Gloucester, is relatively unknown in the city.


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