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
This test pit was one of a number dug in the Temple Cowley area on 29 and 30 June 2013. It was in the back garden of an Edwardian terrace house towards the top of Crescent Road opposite the back of the Salesian College.
For more information see the attached .pdf document
The site of the test pit was the rear garden of 45 Temple Road, Temple Cowley Oxford. The testpit was excavated as part of a series of test pits excavated in the Temple Cowley area of Oxfordover the weekend of 29th and 30th June 2013
For more information see the attached .pdf document
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
Excavation in progress at Bartlemas Chapel, Autumn 2011
