Bashford, R. (2013). Wallingford Police Station, Reading Road, Wallingford. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1076692. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Wallingford Police Station, Reading Road, Wallingford
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Abstract:		 In July 2013, Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried out a field evaluation at Wallingford Police Station, Reading Road, Wallingford, Oxfordshire (NGR SU 6071 8901). A single residual flint of Mesolithic or early Neolithic date was the only prehistoric find. Two fragments of Roman tile were also found, but these two were probably redeposited. Late Saxon or Saxo-Norman features were found all across the site. No trace of the church of St Lucian or of any associated graveyard was found, and it is probable that these do not lie within the site. A small quantity of pottery of later 12th-13th century date was also found. Later medieval and early post-medieval material was absent. The difficulty of determining the relationship between the buried topsoil and the late Saxon and medieval features is probably the result of cultivation of this soil in the later medieval period, and it is possible that the site was used as a garden within St John's Hospital. The site probably remained in cultivation after the dissolution of the Hospital, as no activity of the later 16th or early 17th century was found. A number of pits of the late 17th or early 18th century were scattered across the site. These were probably associated with the Almshouses erected on the adjacent site in AD1681. Finds include the best examples yet known of the stamps of an Abingdon clay pipe maker. The current ground level of the Police Station site is considerably higher than that of the more recent flats to the north and east, which may suggest that the ground level has been raised by the importation of topsoil. The foundations of the south-west corner of the Cottage Hospital built on the site in AD1881 were found close to the current frontage, and were in line with those of the earlier almshouses to the north. As the imported soil was cut by these foundations, it seems most likely that it was brought in immediately prior to the construction of the Cottage Hospital.
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Author:		 Robin Bashford ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 Oxford Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Oxfordshire SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2013
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Site: Wallingford Police Station, Reading Road
County: Oxfordshire
District: South Oxfordshire
Parish: WALLINGFORD
Country: England
Grid Reference: 460710, 189010 (Easting, Northing)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CLAY TOBACCO PIPES (Find)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) METAL (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) METAL (Find)
EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) WORKED FLINT (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) POST HOLE (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) POST HOLE (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) WELL (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: oxfordar1-171058
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Created Date:		 30 Apr 2020