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

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 14 April 2014 - 3:59pm

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

Files:

Larkrise_stgregs_gradiometer.pdf

Test Pit 59, St George's House, Littlemore

Submitted by Leigh on 8 April 2014 - 3:00pm

The test pit was dug in the garden to the east side of the house which was thought to be the most likely to be undisturbed. St George’s House is one of the oldest buildings in the village. The owners have researched its history and advised that the house appears on a map dated 1611 but probably built slightly earlier. Some of the stonework incorporated in the building could originate from the dismantling of buildings after the dissolution in the early 1520s of nearby Minchery Priory. The building has extremely shallow foundations and is built directly on the high limestone bedrock.

Files:

EOXP TEST PIT 59 littlemore.pdf

Geophysical Survey at St Michael's Primary School, Marston

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 7 April 2014 - 4:14pm

Address:

Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 0EJ, UK

The East Oxford Archaeology and History Project conducted 0.04 hectares of gradiometer survey on land immediately to the south east of St Michael’s CE Primary School, Marston Road, Oxford. Interference from ferrous reinforcing in a nearby area of concrete hard-standing caused magnetic interference across much of the small survey area. Several strongly magnetic signals probably

Files:

St Michaels geophysical survey report.pdf

Test pit 22: 142 Cricket Road

Submitted by julianstern on 5 April 2014 - 3:09pm

Address:

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.

Files:

EOXP TP22 Report.pdf

Test pit 39: 4 Bergamot Place

Submitted by julianstern on 5 April 2014 - 2:38pm

Address:

4 Bergamot Place, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 7GL, UK

The test pit was dug in the lawn of the back garden. The house is part of a modern housing development which is less c 20 years old. Prior to the house being built it was farmland. This area is known to be part of a Romano-British pottery industrial area, with nearby Roman road to Alchester. Read more.

Files:

EOXP TP39_Bergamot Place.pdf

Test pit 52: 13 Belvedere Road

Submitted by julianstern on 5 April 2014 - 2:29pm

Address:

13 Belvedere Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 2AZ, UK

The Test pit was dug in the back garden of a 30’s house, built approx. 1935. The area is shown as a field in the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map and before that, which in effect means before the Enclosures, it is shown as “Cowley Marsh” (Cowley Enclosure Map, 1853; Christ Church Tenancy Map, 1777).

Files:

EOXP TP52 Report.pdf