Images from an Archaeological Evaluation at Sibford Road, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, March 2017
Oxford Archaeology (South), 2021. https://doi.org/10.5284/1084937. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
This collection comprises images from an Archaeological evaluation, undertaken by Oxford Archaeology between the 27th and 29th of March 2017, on land east of Sibford Road, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire (NGR SP 35644 33828), in advance of a proposed housing development.
Prior to the evaluation, a series of linear anomalies had been identified within the development area through the use of geophysical survey. These features were interpreted as likely to represent prehistoric droveways. The evaluation comprised nine trenches and archaeological features were identified within six of the nine trenches, confirming the results of the geophysical survey. A series of parallel diches were recorded running east to west at the northern end of the site before turning to the south-west. While these features are likely to represent droveway ditches, pottery recovered from the features suggests they are of Roman, rather than prehistoric, origin. In addition to the droveway ditches, two inhumation burials, one confirmed and one suspected, were identified in Trench 1. The excavated grave was observed to be stone lined and a superficial clean of the inhumation indicated a prone burial with the head placed between the feet. Late 1st- to 2nd-century Roman pottery was recovered from the backfill of the grave. A small assemblage of artefacts and ecofacts was recovered from the site, including pottery, clinker and animal bone.
