The test was dug on the green space between Littlemore Fish Bar and Cowley Road. Historic mapping shows that up until the 1950s this land was allotments and from the 1960s, green space after the construction of the Cowley Road. The road to the E of the green space that joins Long Lane to the N shows on the 1870’s mapping.

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EOXP TEST PIT 63_Littlemore Cowley Road.pdf

The Test Pit was dug in the rear garden of an 80’s house, built when the Greater Leys Estate was constructed. Prior to the building work a number of trenches were dug in the confines of the planned area of the estate as part of an archaeological evaluation and discovered evidence of extensive late Roman pottery works and one example of early (1st Century) Romano-British occupation (HER PRN 26336, Tempus Reparatum).

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EOXP TP38 Report.pdf

A Gradiometer Survey of land to the north of ‘The Oval’, Rose  Hill, Oxford

by Olaf Bayer

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Rosehill geophysical survey report.pdf

Geological observations at the Minchery Farm excavation site, 31st October & 8th November 2012. Notes by C.J. Lister.

Read the report

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Geological observations at the Minchery Farm excavation site - Copy.pdf

Trench 1 was the northern most of three trenches excavated at Minchery Farm Paddock by the Archaeology of East Oxford Project (Archeox) in October/November 2012. Trench one was approximately 50m downslope and to the northwest of Trench 2. It was positioned to investigate peat deposits associated with the line of the Littlemore Brook.

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MP12-Trench1-narrative-final.pdf

MP12-Trench1-context-checklist-final.pdf

MP12_tr1_matrix.pdf

MP12 Tr1_drawing_sample_level_list.pdf

MP12 Tr1 sec1A copy.pdf

MP12 Tr1 sec1B copy.pdf

MP12 Tr1 Plan101 copy.pdf

MP12 Tr1 Plan102-3 copy.pdf

MP12 Tr1 Plan104 copy.pdf

MP12 Tr1 Plan 105 copy.pdf

Trench 1 was the northern most of three trenches excavated at Minchery Farm Paddock by the Archaeology of East Oxford Project (Archeox) in October/November 2012. Trench one was approximately 50m downslope and to the northwest of Trench 2. It was positioned to investigate peat deposits associated with the line of the Littlemore Brook.

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MP12-Trench1-context-checklist-final.pdf

Introduction: One of a series of test pits excavated in the historic core of Littlemore in July 2013.  Test pit 61 is located in the back garden of 1 David Nicholls Close. David Nicholls Close was built in the mid-1990s in the grounds of Lawn Upton House built in 1846 (see figure 3).

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TP61.pdf

Introduction: One of a series of test pits excavated in 2012/2013 in the Iffley Fields area to locate extent of prehistoric activity identified by A.M. Bell in late 19C/early 20C.

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TP57.pdf