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.
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.
Excavation in progress at Bartlemas Chapel, Autumn 2011
