A Gradiometer Survey of land to the north of ‘The Oval’, Rose Hill, Oxford
A Gradiometer Survey of land to the north of ‘The Oval’, Rose Hill, Oxford
by Olaf Bayer
The East Oxford Archaeology and History Project conducted 3.4 hectares of gradiometer survey on land to the north and east ‘The Oval’ in summer 2012. The survey produced evidence of a post-medieval track way and boundary, as well as hints of medieval or post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation. High levels of magnetic ‘background noise’ caused by both surface and subsurface ferrous items made the isolation of genuinely archaeological magnetic anomalies very difficult. Despite the site being within an area of known prehistoric, Roman-British and Saxon activity, no features of this date were identified in the survey data.
