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Oxoniensia 56
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Oxoniensia 56
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Oxoniensia
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56
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1992
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Date Of Issue From: 1991
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20 Jan 2002
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Prehistoric activity, Early Roman building, tenement yards and gardens behind Twickenham House, Abingdon
Bob Wilson
Jeff Wallis
1 - 15
Beaker sherds in a `plough soil' and Iron Age occupation features preceded substantial, better preserved, Early Roman floors, wall foundations, and gravel layers - probably of a courtyard. Early medieval wall robbing, pit digging and domestic refuse dumping was followed by a predominance of waste dumping from butchery, tannery, or similar trade activities from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. Thick upper layers of dark earths are confirmed by sixteenth century and later documentation of gardens. Au(abr)
The infirmary and hall of the medieval hospital of St John the Baptist at Oxford
Brian Durham
17 - 75
When Oxford's Magdalen College prepared to move its kitchens in 1987 it provided a chance to study the medieval hospital which occupied this site from 1231 to 1457. The old kitchens were in a stone building which has been confirmed as one of the last survivors of the hospital structure, although its roof proved to date from the time of the modern college building campaign c 1474--80. Rescue and salvage excavation on the site chosen for the replacement kitchen showed it to be the eastern part of the hospital's infirmary, a major twin-halled structure which was previously unsuspected. `The property of the hospital of St John, Oxford' is briefly described by Julian Munby (24--6). Reports on the finds from the excavations include `The pottery' by Maureen Mellor (49--54), `The coins' by Nicholas Mayhew (54), `The metal finds' by Nicola Rogers (54--7), `The tiles' by Maureen Mellor (57--8), `Clay pipes' by Maureen Mellor (58), `Window glass' by C Pamela Graves (58--9), `Human bone' identified by Mary Harman (59), and `Plant and invertebrate remains from 13th-century silt beneath the hospital buildings' by Mark Robinson (60). Au(abr)
The other wall-paintings at South Newington
John Edwards
103 - 110
South Newington church includes some of the most outstanding medieval wall-paintings in the country, and these are already well documented. There are, however, other wall paintings in the church which have an interest of their own, including a largely lost Doom, three Trinity Trees with shields, and a Passion cycle. Au(adp)
A cornelian intaglio from Blackthorn Hill, near Bicester
Martin Henig
Simon Hornby
169 - 171
The gem, featuring a childlike figure in profile to the left chasing a large bird, is the earliest intaglio from Oxfordshire and probably belonged to an invading legionary in AD 43. MH
A ?radiate brooch from Little Milton, Oxfordshire
Helena Hamerow
Catherine Mortimer
171 - 173
A fragment of a bronze bow brooch found by metal detector appears to have been a miscast, with a massive casting sprue projecting from its bow. Analysis showed it to be a leaded tin bronze. MH
The deserted medieval settlement at Wretchwick, Ambrosden, Oxon, and the Bicester ring road
Richard Chambers
173 - 176
A small, rectangular ditched enclosure on the south-west edge of the deserted medieval settlement at Wretchwick was sectioned in advance of road construction. Finds suggest that the enclosure is no earlier than the eighteenth century and may have enclosed ricks in an area of poor drainage. Fieldwork in the area has also provided more information on the extent of the deserted medieval settlement. MH