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

This report summarises the results of an analysis of lithic artefacts recovered during excavations at Donnington Recreation Ground, Oxford in autumn 2013. A total of 338 artefacts with a combined weight 1378.1g were recovered. Analysis suggests the presence of two distinct phases of prehistoric activity.  The first dating to the Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic, and the second dating to between the Mid Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

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Donnington Recreation Ground lithics for web.xls

Donnington lithics final.pdf

This document by Dr Seren Griffiths interprets the four radiocarbon dates taken on material recovered from the ARCHEOX Project's 2013 excavations at Donnington Recreation Ground.

Read the full report

See the raw data

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Donnington Recreation Ground c14 seren.pdf

DR13 C14 dates from SUERC.pdf

Made by Oxford based anitquarian Alexander James Montgomerie Bell in the early 20th century, the Bell Collection is the largest assemblage of prehistoric stone tools from the ARCHEOX study area.  This report is a summary analysis of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age elements of the collection.

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Bell collection final for web.pdf

Bell collection final for web.xls

The East Oxford Archaeology and History Project conducted 1.8 hectares of gradiometer survey and smaller areas of static point gradiometer and earth resistance survey on Donnington Recreation Ground, Iffley in 2012 and 2013. The survey was the most successful of all of the geophysical surveys carried out as part of the ARCHEOX project.

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Donnington_Rec_Geophysics_Final_forweb.pdf

WORK IN PROGRESS - As elements of the post-excavation process for Donnington Recreation Ground are completed they are added to the website here - WORK IN PROGRESS

Project Report Structure: The chapters of the report are contained in a series of linked .pdf and .xls files

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The detailed reports on the excavation and geophysical survey

Chapter Three: The specialist reports

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Donnington Rec Ground Oxford DR13 REVISED Plants.pdf

DR13 C14 dates from SUERC.pdf

A Gradiometer Survey of land to the north of ‘The Oval’, Rose  Hill, Oxford

by Olaf Bayer

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Rosehill geophysical survey report.pdf

Introduction: Test pit 71 is one of a series of test pits excavated in the Iffley Fields area during 2012/13. These test pits were excavated in order to locate a spread of prehistoric activity said to have been found in this area by A.M.Bell in the late 19^th/early 20th century.

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TP71.pdf

Introduction: One of a series of test pits excavated in 2012/2013 in the Iffley Fields area to locate extent of prehistoric activity identified by A.M. Bell in late 19C/early 20C.

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TP57.pdf

Introduction:  One of a series of test pits excavated in 2012/2013 in the Iffley Fields area to locate extent of prehistoric activity identified by A.M. Bell in late 19C/early 20C.

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TP55.pdf