THE MAGDALEN CROSSING-POINT: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY, 4200BC—1066 AD
THE MAGDALEN CROSSING-POINT: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY, 4200BC—1066 AD by Thomas Matthews Boehmer
This essay sets out to investigate what the pre-1100 AD archaeological record of the Magdalen
College School floodplain site reveals about Oxford and Oxfordshire’s position as an early area of
trade and of other forms of exchange. It probes a particular intersection of topography and early
history to show the extent to which the site has functioned across time as both barrier and
thoroughfare. Throughout, diverse archival and other records of the current alluvial site of Magdalen
College School will be analysed in order to find out more about its ancient and early modern
archaeology, and its place in the early historical record of the city and the county. The period of
investigation leads from Neolithic or Stone Age times to the Early Middle Ages
