Archeox volunteers marking out features at Donnington Recreation Ground, September 2013

Survey and excavation of prehistoric features at Donnington Recreation Ground 2012-13

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Donnington_2013_Leigh_3D.pdf

A test pit was dug inside the small turfed back garden of a house registered in 1992 and lived in by the owner since 1999. Historically the 1879 OS map identifies the area as pasture and in thefirst half of the 20th century it was a timber yard owned by the Organ family.

For more information on the test pit see the attached .pdf document

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EOXP TEST PIT 67_Kirby Place.pdf

Test Pit Report 8, 68 Kelburne Road

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EOXP TEST PIT 8_Kelburne Road.pdf

Through out 2013 Archeox volunteers have been investigating the contents and context of a collection of stone tools made in the early years of the 20th century by Oxford antiquarian Alexander James Montgomerie Bell.  The collection comes from the Iffley Fields area of East Oxford, close to the junction of Donnington Bridge Road and Iffley Road. Today the collection is held in the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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

The following .pdf and .xls files contain details of lithic artefacts from the Archeox excavations at Bartlemas Chapel in autumn 2011

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Lithic arefacts from Bartlemas 2011.pdf

Lithic artefacts from Bartlemas 2011.xls

This location was chosen with a view to adding further information about the archaeology of the area to that gained from two previous test pits excavated in Abberbury Road on 21st - 22nd June 2011 (TPS_11 and 12). Both these sites provided evidence of Roman activity in the area, which included a 3rd century Roman coin of Postumus and fragments of mortaria.

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The excavation revealed extensive evidence of this fire in the form of charcoal, burnt stone and fragments of medieval roof tile. It also revealed the foundations of a substantial wall likely to have been linked to the south wing of the Manor, although its alignment does not tie in well with the surviving part of the Manor. There has clearly been activity on this site for a very long time, as prehistoric worked flints and Roman pottery were found, as well as medieval and post-medieval ceramic material.