 Other excavations have shown extensive Roman era ceramic material at Brandier, particularly the fields surrounding Brandiers Farm.The settlement known today as Upper Minety developed around the parish church, where some 40 acres lay in Wiltshire.The rest of Minety lay in Gloucestershire, as a detached portion of Crowthorne-with-Minety hundred, until the whole parish became part of Wiltshire under the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Detached Parishes Act of 1844.