Data from a Trial Trench Evaluation at The Oaks Farm, Barton to Mixbury Cutting, Oxfordshire, 2018 (HS2 Phase One)
Connect Archaeology, High Speed Two Ltd., 2025. https://doi.org/10.5284/1133950. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1133950
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Introduction
This collection comprises image, spreadsheet and site record data from Trial Trench Evaluation work at The Oaks Farm, Barton to Mixbury Cutting, Oxfordshire. The work was undertaken by Connect Archaeology in 2018.
Project Summary
The programme of evaluation, as set out in the Location Specific Written Scheme of Investigation (LS-WSI) for Doddershall Deserted Medieval Village, Doddershall Embankment, Buckhinghamshire, and The Oaks Farm, Barton to Mixbury Cutting, Oxfordshire (AC250/W2) (1EW03-FUS-EV-REP-CS05_CL02-001901), comprised 15 trial trenches. The trenches were located uniformly across the site to maximise the potential for encountering archaeological remains. The trenches were positioned to avoid the identified constraints with 9 trenches targeted on identified geophysical survey anomalies and features identified on aerial photographs and LiDAR. A further 6 Trenches were positioned to provide a representative control sample of blank areas of the Site, amounting to a 2 percent sample of this area. Due to the presence of a low voltage (LV) cable running through the centre and along the northern side of site Trench 1 was moved south outside of the cable's buffer zone. Due to the logistics of the site compound set up, Trench 6 was moved east. This was done in agreement with Vision, who signed the Permit to Dig and Fusion. With the exception of a single non-descript ditch encountered in Trench 13, there were no archaeological features present in the trial trenches. Anomalies identified by a geophysical survey of part of the site were shown to be associated with variations in the geological substrate. A single land drain was identified in Trench 12. A very small assemblage of finds recovered from the topsoil consisted of undiagnostic pieces of CMB dating to the modern period, and residual, undiagnostic flint debitage.
Re-Use Value Statement
The Oaks Farm evaluations archive can be considered as part of the wider HS2 archive and as such has re-use value.
The site did not identify any features of archaeological interest.
