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Test Pit 64: 47 Oxford Road, Littlemore

The medieval village of Littlemore was a tiny agricultural community miles outside the walled city
of Oxford (Lobel 2008, 206). Today it is located approximately 2.5 miles (4km) southeast of the city

Test Pit 62: 9 Sandford Road

Introduction: Test pit 62 was one of a series of test pits excavated in the historic core of Littlemore in June 2013.  It is located in the back garden of 9 Sandford Road. 9 Sandford Road is set slightly back from the street and was constructed in the late 1970s/1980s.

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Test pit 61: 1 David Nicholls Close

Introduction: One of a series of test pits excavated in the historic core of Littlemore in July 2013.  Test pit 61 is located in the back garden of 1 David Nicholls Close. David Nicholls Close was built in the mid-1990s in the grounds of Lawn Upton House built in 1846 (see figure 3).

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Test Pit 55: 21 Fairacres Road

Address: 
21 Fairacres Road

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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Test pit 51: 3 Bedford Street

Introduction: One of a series of test pits excavated in the Iffley Fields area during 2012/13.  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 19th/20th century.  The site is loca

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Test pit 48: 21 Bedford Street

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Geophysical Survey at Northfield School, Blackbird Leys, Oxford

Address: 
NORTHFIELD SCHOOL KNIGHTS ROAD BLACKBIRD LEYS OXFORD OX4 6DQ

The attached .pdf document gives the results of a gradiometer survey in the grounds of Northfield school

Geophysical survey of South Park

The attached .pdf file gives the results of a gradiometer survey of South Park carried out by the Archaeology of East Oxford Project in winter 2012-13

Iffley parish place names

Iffley and Rose Hill - Introduction and origins

 

Test pit 70: 48 Temple Road, Temple Cowley, Oxford

This test pit was excavated in the garden of one of the older houses on Temple Road,showing on the oldest OS map with an associated orchard to the south. The area of garden inwhich the test pit was located was built up above the level of the house to the west and theroad to the north. One of the many wells in this area of Temple Cowley was a few metres tothe NW. The build-up seemed to have originated at least in the eighteenth century andpossibly earlier and was notable for slag, charcoal and clay pipe. Although not producing as

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