Howard, A., Wilson, S., Kennedy, R. and Bush, S. (2018). King Alfred's Academy, Wantage: Archaeological Watching Brief. Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1102203. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 King Alfred's Academy, Wantage: Archaeological Watching Brief
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 An archaeological watching brief was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology during groundwork associated with the construction of a new sports hall, relocation of modular classrooms at King Alfred's Academy, Wantage, Oxfordshire. The watching brief identified a number of archaeological features within the relatively confined limits of the groundwork footprint. This included a possible Roman holloway or trackway and a series of intercutting ditches. These are likely associated with cropmarks immediately to the south west of the site, which have been identified on Lidar. This also correlates with the results of a previous phase of evaluation of the site, which identified a series of linear ditches. The results would appear to indicate an agricultural landscape aligned along the course of the Roman trackway, with the field systems, and trackway likely to be associated with the Roman villa known to the north-west of the site at East Challow. The recovery of residual Saxo/Norman pottery ties the site into the wider landscape of Saxon activity within the area, with the majority of that activity again focussed to the north west of the site at East Challow. The earliest material recovered was Middle Bronze Age pottery recovered from within a ditch. This ditch appears to be aligned with the Roman trackway possibly indicating that the trackway has an earlier origin, or that the Roman trackway is following fields systems of earlier origin.
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Author:		 A Howard
Sam Wilson
R Kennedy
S Bush
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2018
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District: Vale of White Horse
Parish: Wantage
Country: England
County: Oxfordshire
Grid Reference: 438714, 187960 (Easting, Northing)
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TRACKWAY (Monument Type England)
ROMAN TRACKWAY (Tag)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-340793
OBIB: 18088
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Created Date:		 03 Feb 2023