Test pit

Test pits are excavation in miniature. All the processes that are carried out on a full scale-excavation, such as digging, recording, drawing, photography and taking soil samples, take place during the excavation of a test pit. Over the next three years we hope to dig as many test pits as possible. If you are interested in digging a test pit in your garden please contact Jane@archeox.net.

Test Pit 45: 15 Whitethorne Way Blackbird Leys

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 4 September 2013 - 10:00am

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 45_Whitethorn Way.pdf

Test Pit 44: Oxeye Court, Greater Leys

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 4 September 2013 - 9:38am

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 44_Oxeye Court.pdf

Test Pit 43: Fairview Allotments, Town Furze, Headington

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 4 September 2013 - 9:32am

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 43_Fairview Allotments.pdf

Test Pit 42: 25 Pitts Road, Headington Quarry

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 4 September 2013 - 9:23am

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 42_Pitts Road.pdf

Test Pit 41: 6 Pine Close, Blackbird Leys

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 4 September 2013 - 9:11am

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 41_Pine Close.pdf

Test Pit 40: 3 Anemone Close, Greater Leys

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 4 September 2013 - 8:45am

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 40_Anemone Close_Greater Leys.pdf

Test Pit 37: Oxeye Court, Greater Leys,

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 4 September 2013 - 8:24am

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 37_Oxeye Court.pdf

Test Pit 36: 5 Grebe Close, Greater Leys

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 3 September 2013 - 6:07pm

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 36_Grebe Close.pdf

Test Pit 35: 11 Grebe Close, Greater Leys

Submitted by David Griffiths on 3 July 2013 - 1:29pm

Address:

11 Grebe Close, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 7FZ

Test Pit 35, 11 Grebe Close, Greater Leys

This test pit was one of a group excavated on the weekend of 11th-12th May to gather information about this area of East Oxford, which was farmland until developed in the 1980s-90s. The test pit revealed disturbed deposits, which included fragments of Roman pottery together with modern building materials.

click here for pdf of report

Files:

EOXP TP 35.pdf