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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 31 Bartlemas Close Allotments
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 10 January 2012 - 11:23am        

      
              
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                    Bartlemas Close, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 2AE, UK        

        




Test Pit 31 is the second of a number of planned test pits to be dug in allotments that border the south and east of Bartlemas Chapel. The aim of these small excavations is to see if it is possible to determine the extent of activity around the chapel prior to the boundary wall being constructed.


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      Test Pit 03 - Boundary Brook Nature Park
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 10 January 2012 - 10:33am        

      
              
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                    Boundary Brook Rd, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4, UK        

        




Test pit 3 was located in an oval clearing in the nature park in the NW of the clearing, 3.5m of a central tree. Small trees are scattered across the clearing which is under rough grass and surrounded by thick brambly undergrowth with other small trees including willows and birch.  The clearing had not been dug for some years but had been worked as allotments until c. 10 years previously.  In all the historic Ordnance Survey maps the area is part of a field system.

  


  

 



  
      

      Test Pit 02 - Boundary Brook Nature Park
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 10 January 2012 - 10:15am        

      
              
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                    Boundary Brook Rd, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4, UK        

        




Test pit 2 was located in an oval clearing in the nature park.  Small trees are scattered across the clearing which is under rough grass and surrounded by thick brambly undergrowth with other small trees including willows and birch.  The clearing had not been dug for some years but had been worked as allotments until c. 10 years previously.  In all the historic Ordnance Survey maps the area is part of a field system.

  


  

 



  
      

      Test Pit 27 - Long Lane, Littlemore
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 9 November 2011 - 11:58am        

      
              
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                    27 Long Ln, Littlemore, Oxfordshire OX4 3, UK        

        




 A test pit was dug in the lawn of a garden in Long Lane, Littlemore.  A large number of finds were recovered, including modern to possiby Roman pottery.


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      Test Pit 09 - Church Way, Iffley
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 7 November 2011 - 8:42pm        

      
              
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                    Church Way, Oxford OX4 4DZ, UK        

        




 


The test pit was de-turfed in an area of lawn approximately 0.5m west of the end of 


the garden path over an area of the lawn  which showed a distinct variation in the 


colour of the grass of the lawn.


 


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      Test Pit 06 - Ark T Centre
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 4 November 2011 - 7:07pm        

      
              
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A test pit was dug to a depth of 1.0m. The natural geology was reached at 0.32m (72.65m above OD). On removing the turf, a thin, uneven spread of pea gravel could be seen immediately below the turfline, mixed with the soil from Spit 1


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      Test Pit 05 - Ark T Centre
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 4 November 2011 - 6:53pm        

      
              
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                    Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 3LN, UK        

        




A test pit was dug in the front garden of the Art T Centre to a depth of 0.45m. The natural geology was reached at c.0.8m below ground surface.


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      Test Pit 19 - Bartlemas Farmhouse
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 4 November 2011 - 5:59pm        

      
              
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The test pit was positioned inside and east of the western boundary ditch, in such a way as to avoid an area that the householder identified as previously having been a rose bed. The test pit was dug to a depth of 0.38m. The natural geology was not reached


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      Test Pit 04 - Bartlemas Farmhouse
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 4 November 2011 - 5:51pm        

      
              
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                    Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 2AJ, UK        

        




A test pit was dug in the front garden of Bartlemas Farmhouse to explore the character of the soils in this part of the site,and to test the survival of any archaeology and the depth of recently accumulated soils.


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      Test Pit 24 - The Manor House, Littlemore
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Paula Levick on 4 November 2011 - 5:11pm        

      
              
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                    Sandford Rd, Oxford OX4 4PU, UK        

        




 The site of the test pit was the Manor House in Littlemore, Oxford.  The building was constructed in 1530 and would have been at the heart of the western centre of the bifocal settlement of Littlemore. 


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