This test pit was one of a cluster dug in the Temple Cowley area on the weekend of 29-30th June 2013 with the aim of finding out more about the archaeology of the area,especially the medieval activity associated with the Preceptory of the Knights Templar.The site was located within the grounds of a large house known as Quintain on old maps until the current house was built around the turn of the 20th century.The test pit showed that a large amount of topsoil had been imported to the site but the sealed levels below revealed a significant amount of Roman and some medieval activity.

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EOXP TP 66_9 Juntion Road.pdf

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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EOXP TEST PIT 70_48 Temple Road.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 35, 11 Grebe Close, Greater Leys

This test pit was one of a group excavated on the weekend of 11th-12th May to gather information about this area of East Oxford, which was farmland until developed in the 1980s-90s. The test pit revealed disturbed deposits, which included fragments of Roman pottery together with modern building materials.

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EOXP TP 35.pdf

Report on test pit 28 in Littlemore allotments

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EOXP TEST PIT 28_Littlemore allotments.pdf

A test pit was dug on East Minchery Farm allotments, close to the railway, with Lex Francis and a group of school students from Blackbird Leys

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