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Excavations conducted between 1981 and 1986 in advance of gravel
extraction in Gravelly Guy field, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire,
revealed archaeological evidence spanning from the Neolithic
through to the Saxon period. Neolithic and early Bronze Age
activity is represented by pit scatters and a series of ring
ditches with associated burials. The Iron Age and early Roman
periods witnessed the continuous development of a linear
settlement, consisting of a dense area of pits, gullies, circular
structures, four-posters and boundary ditches in the mid to late
Iron Age phase and a series of rectilinear enclosures and unusual
'ramped hollows' and wells in the late Iron Age/early Roman period.
Excavation of a section at the junction of the floodplain and the
gravel terrace has also provided information regarding the changing
land use and contemporary environment in the vicinity of the site.
Gravelly Guy remains one of the most thoroughly excavated sites of
this period in the Thames Valley. As well as the vast amount of
structural evidence, the considerable quantities of artefacts and
environmental information recovered, together with a series of ten
radiocarbon dates, have resulted in a detailed study of the site,
its position in the landscape and relationship to the contemporary
archaeology of the surrounding area.
Excavations at Spring Road Municipal Cemetery, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire have revealed activity extending from the Mesolithic to
the Saxon period. The most significant discovery was an arc of
substantial postholes which formed part of one of very few middle
Bronze timber circles known in southern Britain. The most important
earlier evidence was a Beaker burial containing a copper awl which
is amongst the earliest metal artefacts from Britain. Mesolithic
flint, an oval Peterborough Ware bowl and a Grooved Ware pit were
also found. A group of three middle Iron Age crouched inhumation
burials are amongst the most interesting later finds, which
included also an early-middle Iron Age roundhouse, a Roman field
system and Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured buildings.
Excavations that demonstrate the changing fortunes of a stone-built
villa from the 2nd century to at least AD 360.
The 1977-1978 excavation of the Middle Iron Age enclosure at
Mingies Ditch and the prehistoric evidence from the 1980 excavation
of Smithfield, the adjoining field. It includes a 90-page technical
appendix of figures and tables.
Report on 1983-5 excavation of a low-lying gravel site close to the
Thames. A mid Iron Age ditched enclosure with four huts, and
evidence suggesting horse-breeding rather than arable cultivation
is followed, after a break, by Roman period enclosures that
initially respect the earlier ditches but later become rectangular;
no structures but R-B domestic refuse up to mid 4th century. Later
use in Middle Ages. Discussion of the site, finds and environment
with all data in readable print; no fiche. Stunning reconstruction
on front cover.
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