This report summarises the results of an analysis of lithic artefacts recovered during a programme of test pit excavation carried out between 2010 and 2014 by the East Oxford Archaeology and History Project, or ARCHEOX.  A total of 71 pieces of flint with a combined weight of 411g were recovered from 31 of the 73 test pits excavated by the project.  These finds are grouped into a series of 10 loosely defined test pit clusters. With the exception of a post-medieval gunflint and a Mesolithic microlith none of these artefacts is chronologically diagnostic.

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Archeox_Testpit_Lithics_web.xlsx

Archeox_testpit_lithics_web_small.pdf

The East Oxford Archaeology and History Project conducted 1.4 hectares of gradiometer survey on the playing fields of Larkrise Primary School and St Gregory the Great School in June 2012.  High levels of magnetic ‘background noise’ caused by both surface and subsurface highly magnetic items made the identification of genuinely archaeological magnetic anomalies very difficult.  T

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Larkrise_stgregs_gradiometer.pdf

The test pit was dug at the bottom of the garden which backs onto school grounds and positioned to avoid tree roots. Cricket Road was developed in the 1930s but marks a much older boundary and possible route between Cowley and Oxford. The first edition Ordnance Survey 25in map 1877 shows the site as a field. The north-east corner of the pit was 21.75m from the house. Read more.

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EOXP TP22 Report.pdf

The Test pit was dug in the back garden of a 30’s house, built approx. 1935. The area is shown as a field in the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map and before that, which in effect means before the Enclosures, it is shown as “Cowley Marsh” (Cowley Enclosure Map, 1853; Christ Church Tenancy Map, 1777).

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EOXP TP52 Report.pdf

This test pit was one of a cluster dug in the Temple Cowley area on the weekend of 29-30th June 2013 with the aim of finding out more about the archaeology of the area, especially the medieval activity associated with the Preceptory of the Knights Templar. The site was located within the grounds of a large house known as Quintain on old maps until the current house was built around the turn of the 20th century. Read more. 

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EOXP TP 66_9 Juntion Road.pdf

You will all probably remember that before the Project’s investigations almost nothing was known about the burials at Bartlemas. We know now that dozens of people must be buried around the Chapel, within the old curving enclosure wall.  Some of you will remember recording some of the wall’s massive stones now hidden beneath undergrowth.

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Bartlemas C14 - SUERC.pdf

The field names of Cowley

by Christopher Lewis

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The field names of Cowley.pdf

The attached .pdf file is an investigation into St Frideswide monastery and its relationship with Cowley, St Clements and East Oxford.

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St Clement's-st frideswide.pdf

This test pit was one of a cluster dug in the Temple Cowley area on the weekend of 29-30th June 2013 with the aim of finding out more about the archaeology of the area,especially the medieval activity associated with the Preceptory of the Knights Templar.The site was located within the grounds of a large house known as Quintain on old maps until the current house was built around the turn of the 20th century.The test pit showed that a large amount of topsoil had been imported to the site but the sealed levels below revealed a significant amount of Roman and some medieval activity.

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EOXP TP 66_9 Juntion Road.pdf