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Footprints from the Past - The South-eastern Extramural Settlement of Roman Alchester and Rural Occupation in its Hinterland: The Archaeology of East West Rail Phase 1 (Hardcover)
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Footprints from the Past - The South-eastern Extramural Settlement of Roman Alchester and Rural Occupation in its Hinterland: The Archaeology of East West Rail Phase 1 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph, 28
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Excavations by Oxford Archaeology in advance of a programme of
improvements to the railway between Bicester and Oxford
investigated part of the south-eastern extramural settlement
associated with the Roman fortress and subsequent town at
Alchester, Oxfordshire, as well as rural settlements in its rural
hinterland. The investigations at Alchester extended across two
successive routes south to Dorchester-on-Thames, the earlier of
which by-passed the eastern side of Otmoor and was superseded by a
more direct route across the moor at the end of the 1st century AD.
Settlement beside the earlier road may have been a successor to a
pre-Roman settlement and appears from artefactual evidence to have
been of quite high status during the initial, military phase,
although no contemporary structural evidence was found.
Stone-founded buildings were constructed during the late 1st-early
2nd century, including two single-celled structures of uncertain
function that may represent a gatehouse or a pair of shrines. The
buildings were demolished by c AD 200, when the area was abandoned.
An insight into the diverse lives of the inhabitants is provided by
finds that included part of a priestly headdress, two pairs of
slave shackles and a group of roof tiles bearing the footprints of
a young child. The extramural settlement may have been partly rural
in character, involved in farming the landscape around the town,
which was intensively managed for agricultural production, probably
as meadow and pasture. Ditched enclosures beside the later road may
have been part of a second extramural area or a discrete farming
establishment. No buildings were identified but two large pits
contained domestic refuse and building material. Excavations at six
other locations investigated farmsteads that dated from the middle
Iron Age to the 3rd century AD and included a rare deposit of
debris from copper and iron working from a middle Iron Age
enclosure ditch.
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