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From Studium to Station
This report presents the results of over 40 years of excavation, historic building survey and documentary research that have been carried out by Oxford Archaeology and others at the site of the Cistercian house of Rewley, a chantry founded in 1280. It became an abbey and studium providing accommodation for monks studying at the university, and can therefore claim to be one of Oxford's earliest colleges. The railway station that subsequently occupied the site in 1851 followed the design of the Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition, and was the last surviving representative of that internationally important building.
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Reading Business Park
The prime interest of this rescue excavation on a Kennet valley development site on the outskirts of Reading is the Late Bronze Age settlement evidence: semi-circular segmented buildings, four and six post structures, two post supports; paired houses in lines, open space, activity and storage areas; flax retting pits flanking a trackway; and associated field systems. The discussion in this book ties these finds to other local discoveries. Earlier Neolithic evidence suggests some resource-specific rather than domestic activity took place on the site, whilst enclosures and linear boundaries have been found from the Romano-British period.
Excavations in the Extramural Settlement of Roman Alchester, Oxfordshire, 1991
Major excavations of the town of Alchester has produced evidence of extensive activity throughout the Roman period. This evidence has been integrated to produce this framework for understanding the development of the Roman town.
Beaumont Palace and the White Friars
The construction of the new Sackler Library for the University of Oxford provided an opportunity to investigate the former site of the royal palace at Beaumont, the birthplace of both King Richard I and King John. This report details the excavations by Oxford Archaeology in 1997-8. The first elements of the site to be investigated were the back gardens, pits and privies of the fine stone houses built along St John Street and Beaumont Street by 19th century property speculators. Records from that period show that burials were uncovered both during the construction of the houses and during the building of Beaumont Street itself in 1820s. These burials were from the cemetery of the White Friars...
Between Villa and Town
Report on the Roman remains excavated during archaeological investigations undertaken by Oxford Archaeology on land around Kings Meadow Lane, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, 1993-2003. Includes descriptions of some early prehistoric and Iron Age activity.
The Story of Oxford
This booklet replaces the first Story of Oxford, published in 1975 to coincide with the opening of the Museum of Oxford. New information about Oxford is published continually in studies of buildings and documents, archaeological excavations and surveys. This version uses these sources.
'In the Vaults Beneath'
Archaeological investigations, undertaken as part of a programme to restore St George's Church, Bloomsbury, to its original Hawksmoor splendour, involved the removal of 871 triple lead-lined coffins from within the crypt and monitoring works within the churchyard. The elaborate named coffins of upper middle class parishioners provided a valuable opportunity to greatly develop the new field of post-medieval coffin analysis, and to integrate historical, archaeological and osteological data in order to build a vivid picture of this population. Over 90% of coffins were named, which allowed a rare opportunity to blind test osteological methods on 72 skeletons, whilst analysis of documentary and osteological evidence has challenged some long-held beliefs in post-medieval burial archaeology. Disease patterns in the St George's assemblage were influenced by the longevity and affluence of this population, factors that also underlay the necessity for elaborate and expensive dental treatment, including very early examples of fillings, filing and dentures.
Gazetteer of Archaeological Investigations in England
"Information about the nature and extent of archaeological investigations carried out in England," compiled and abstracted from journals, reviews, annual reports, grant reports, and archaeologists' summaries of current work, many otherwise unpublished or intended for limited circulation.
The Archaeology of Oxford in 20 Digs
The fascinating story behind twenty of Oxford's most important archaeological digs, and the finds they produced, as told by the Oxford City Council Archaeologist.
