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The Archaeology of East Oxford - Archeox: The Development of a Community (Hardcover)
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The Archaeology of East Oxford - Archeox: The Development of a Community (Hardcover)
Series: Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph, 43
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Published by Oxford University in the Thames Valley Landscapes
Monograph Series, this volume (no. 43) brings together the work of
an award-winning, five-year lottery-funded university/community
research project ("Archeox") on the landscape and history of East
Oxford, part of the City of Oxford (UK). It documents field and
geophysical surveys, archive and collections research, excavations
at two Medieval ecclesiastical sites (a leper hospital and a
Benedictine nunnery), at a prehistoric pit alignment, together with
an extensive campaign of test-pitting which has given new insights
into the Roman, Medieval and post-Medieval settlement pattern. The
book tells the prehistory and history of a formerly rural area on
the eastern outskirts of Oxford which underwent rapid urbanisation
after 1850, and is now an integral part of the city. The research
plan relied upon engaging and working with the community to
participate and to provide access to many study areas, and offered
a comprehensive programme of training and education to all those
who took part, ensuring that the work done was to an appropriately
high standard. It has produced new insights into a number of
nationally-important archaeological sites, gained new overviews of
the development of the landscape, and brought out from obscurity
many under-studied or forgotten finds in local collections.
Fundamentally a project which sought to unite university and city,
the contemporary story of people and their heritage is a key part
of its message. Working in and among some of Oxford's most deprived
communities, "Archeox" has been recognised as an exemplar of good
practice in breaking down barriers to higher education. Over seven
hundred people participated as volunteers, and the project reached
many more through outreach and engagement programmes and events.
The book is extensively illustrated with many maps, plans and
photographs, and is authored by 55 participants in the project,
ranging from leading Professors of Archaeology to volunteers who
are achieving published work for the first time.
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