Test Pit 34, 24 Abberbury Road, Iffley

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EOXP TEST PIT 34_Abberbury Road.pdf

Test pit 33, 24 Abberbury Road, Iffley

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EOXP TEST PIT 33_Abberbury Road.pdf

Test Pit 32, 24 Abberbury Road, Iffley

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EOXP TEST PIT 32_Abberbury Road.pdf

Test Pit Report 8, 68 Kelburne Road

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The East Oxford Archaeology and History Project conducted 1.8 hectares of gradiometer survey and smaller areas of detailed gradiometer and earth resistance survey on Donnington Recreation Ground, Iffley in 2012 and 2013.

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Donnington Recreation Ground Gradiometer.pdf

Test pit 12 was located in the garden of 26 Abberbury Road in a lawn sloping very gently up to the south. The area of lawn in which the test pit was dug was  part of an old orchard, of which a few trees survive in the back gardens on this side of Abberbury Road; the garden is approaching the highest point of Rose Hill and backs on to the allotments. Historic Ordnance Survey maps show this area as agricultural land until its development in the twentieth century.

Test Pit 31 is the second of a number of planned test pits to be dug in allotments that border the south and east of Bartlemas Chapel. The aim of these small excavations is to see if it is possible to determine the extent of activity around the chapel prior to the boundary wall being constructed.

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Test pit 3 was located in an oval clearing in the nature park in the NW of the clearing, 3.5m of a central tree. Small trees are scattered across the clearing which is under rough grass and surrounded by thick brambly undergrowth with other small trees including willows and birch.  The clearing had not been dug for some years but had been worked as allotments until c. 10 years previously.  In all the historic Ordnance Survey maps the area is part of a field system.