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The Archaeology of Banbury Flood Alleviation Scheme, Oxfordshire (Paperback)
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The Archaeology of Banbury Flood Alleviation Scheme, Oxfordshire (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph, 21
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This volume presents the results of investigations undertaken by
Oxford Archaeology between 2003 and 2011 in advance of construction
of the Banbury Flood Alleviation Scheme, Oxfordshire. The main
element of these investigations was an excavation at the site of a
borrow pit for clay to be used in constructing the flood defences.
Geophysical surveys of two other areas that revealed dense
concentrations of buried archaeological remains not subsequently
affected by the scheme are also reported. The excavation uncovered
a multi-period landscape containing a regionally significant
Neolithic occupation site, as well as later features. The Neolithic
remains comprised 35 pits that produced large assemblages of flint
and pottery, mainly Peterborough Ware of middle Neolithic date
(associated with radiocarbon dates of c 3350-2650 BC). A single
substantial but enigmatic middle Bronze Age ditch contained few
finds, but these included a radius from an aurochs, one of the
latest examples of this species in Britain. Late pre-Roman Iron Age
occupation was represented by an oval double-ditched enclosure
which, following a brief hiatus, was succeeded toward the end of
the 1st century AD by a more extensive low-status farmstead. The
settlement was redeveloped during the 2nd century before finally
being abandoned in the early-mid 3rd century. Artefactual and
palaeoenvironmental assemblages, as well as the spatial arrangement
of the settlement, provided evidence regarding the economy, status
and social organisation of the community. The volume includes a
consideration of the results of the project in the context of Iron
Age and Roman settlement of the Cherwell Valley.
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