Archaeology of East Oxford - Post-medieval

Lithic artefacts from test pits in East Oxford

Olaf Bayer — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:29:28 +0000

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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

A Gradiometer Survey of Donnington Recreation Ground, Iffley, Oxford

Olaf Bayer — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:19:26 +0000

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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

Gradiometer survey of Larkrise School and St Gregory the Great School playing fields

Olaf Bayer — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:59:12 +0000

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The East Oxford Archaeology and History Project conducted 1.4 hectares of gradiometer survey on the playing fields of Larkrise Primary School and St Gregory the Great School in June 2012. High levels of magnetic ‘background noise’ caused by both surface and subsurface highly magnetic items made the identification of genuinely archaeological magnetic anomalies very difficult. T

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Larkrise_stgregs_gradiometer.pdf

Test pit 22: 142 Cricket Road

julianstern — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 15:09:00 +0000

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142 Cricket Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 3DL, UK

The test pit was dug at the bottom of the garden which backs onto school grounds and positioned to avoid tree roots. Cricket Road was developed in the 1930s but marks a much older boundary and possible route between Cowley and Oxford. The first edition Ordnance Survey 25in map 1877 shows the site as a field. The north-east corner of the pit was 21.75m from the house. Read more.

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EOXP TP22 Report.pdf