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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 33: 24 Abberbury Road, Iffley
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by David Griffiths on 3 July 2013 - 1:25pm        

      
              
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                    24 Abberbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 4ES, UK        

        




Test pit 33, 24 Abberbury Road, Iffley


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      Test Pit 32: 24 Abberbury Road, Iffley
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by David Griffiths on 3 July 2013 - 1:21pm        

      
              
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                    24 Abberbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 4ES, UK        

        




Test Pit 32, 24 Abberbury Road, Iffley


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      Test Pit 8, 68 Kelburne Road
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by David Griffiths on 2 July 2013 - 3:47pm        

      
              
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                    Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 3SH, UK        

        




Test Pit Report 8, 68 Kelburne Road


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      Test pit 28: 140 Thomson Terrace Allotments, Littlemore
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 28 June 2013 - 3:44pm        

      
              
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Report on test pit 28 in Littlemore allotments



      
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application/pdf iconEOXP TEST PIT 28_Littlemore allotments.pdf
        

        



  


  

 



  
      

      Test pit 8: Kelburne Road
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 28 June 2013 - 3:34pm        

      
              
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Report on test pit excavation at 68 Kelburne Road



      
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      Test Pit 29 East Minchery Farm
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by David Griffiths on 13 March 2012 - 5:25pm        

      
              
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                    East Minchery Farm Allotments        

        




A test pit was dug on East Minchery Farm allotments, close to the railway, with Lex Francis and a group of school students from Blackbird Leys


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      Test Pit 30 - Links Allotments (Bartlemas)
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by David Griffiths on 14 February 2012 - 4:49pm        

      
              
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                    Bartlemas Close, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 2AE, UK        

        




The test pit was dug in grass between the boundary wall for Bartlemas Chapel to the west and N-S allotment plots to the east. There may also have been an entrance into the chapel/leper hospital grounds from the east just north of the test pit. Fragments of medieval pottery and bone hinted at activity close by and the deposits were considerably shallower than those within the chapel grounds to the west.


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      Test Pit 21 - 29 Abberbury Road, Iffley
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by David Griffiths on 14 February 2012 - 4:42pm        

      
              
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                    29 Abberbury Rd, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 4ET, UK        

        




This location was chosen with a view to adding further information about the archaeology of the area to that gained from two previous test pits excavated in Abberbury Road on 21st - 22nd June 2011 (TPS_11 and 12). Both these sites provided evidence of Roman activity in the area, which included a 3rd century Roman coin of Postumus and fragments of mortaria.


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      Test Pit 20 - Warneford Hospital Grounds
    

  
  
      

              

          Submitted by David Griffiths on 14 February 2012 - 4:16pm        

      
              
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                    Warneford Hospital and Clinic, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3, UK        

        




The evidence from this test pit, dug in Warneford Hospital’s grounds, added interesting aspects to the story of this part of East Oxford. The hospital was built in 1831 to house mentally disturbed patients. 


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