Bonvoisin, P., Boyd, N. and Wapshott, E. (2019). Land at Hill Farm, Duns Tew, Bicester, Oxfordshire Results of a Heritage Assessment and Geophysical Survey . South West Archaeology Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.5284/1075481. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land at Hill Farm, Duns Tew, Bicester, Oxfordshire Results of a Heritage Assessment and Geophysical Survey
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Series:		 South West Archaeology Ltd. unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 The proposed site would be located north of the village of Duns Tew close to the parish boundary with Deddington. Duns Tew was a Domesday Manor, but by 1086 it had already been subdivided into four smaller estates and the medieval descent of these sub-manors is complex. Tenurial division was reflected in the division of the parish into two halves, each with its own two-field Open Field. The parish was enclosed in 1794, but the fields at Hill Farm appear to have been enclosed in or before the 17th century. Crop- and soilmark evidence indicate ridge and furrow cultivation across the whole farm, and this was confirmed by a geophysical (gradiometer) survey. More importantly, the survey also identified several probable settlement enclosures and/or structures running back from a single long ditch orientated approximately east-to-west. This closely mirrors anomalies identified in the field to the west, later determined to be the remains of two settlement foci within a Mid-Late Iron Age clothes-line settlement. The evidence would therefore indicate the base of this valley was occupied by numerous small settlements at or just above the limit of flooding. The overall significance of this pattern of settlement is likely to be regional, as while there are relatively few close comparanda this is likely - as in this instance - to reflect the absence of fieldwork and poor cropmark response than actual scarcity. The impact of the proposed development on the buried archaeological resource would be permanent and irreversible, but could be mitigated through design, as it was for the adjacent PV site.
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Author:		 P Bonvoisin
N Boyd ORCID icon
E Wapshott
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Publisher:		 South West Archaeology Ltd.
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2019
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Site: Land at Hill Farm
County: Oxfordshire
District: Cherwell
Parish: DUNS TEW
Country: England
Grid Reference: 445974, 230001 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) RIDGE AND FURROW (Monument Type England)
FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT) (Event)
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY (Event)
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OASIS Id: southwes1-367483
OBIB: 190921
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Created Date:		 16 Apr 2020