Leech, S. (2013). Construction of Park and Ride Facility, Land to the North- West of the A41, Bicester, Oxfordshire. Oxford Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1103591. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Construction of Park and Ride Facility, Land to the North- West of the A41, Bicester, Oxfordshire
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Series:		 Oxford Archaeological Unit unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Between the 9th and the 20th of August 2013 Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried out evaluation trenching on the site of a proposed Park and Ride to the south of Bicester. The evaluation was generally successful, however the date of many of the features remains uncertain as they had no associated artefacts and could not be dated. The scarcity of artefacts and settlement features indicates that the Park and Ride site lies outside the Iron Age and Roman settlement area of Alchester. Various undated possible pits or pos tholes were identified. These include two possible hearth pits, found in trenches 8 and 16, which are consistent with outlying settlement features. Significant features include a single human cremation burial in trench 9, which contained hobnails and tacks (the latter probably from a box) but no other artefacts. It is almost certainly of Roman date. The most common features encountered were ditches and gullies. These contained very few artefacts, indicating that the site lay within an area used predominantly as agricultural fields or enclosures since at least the Roman period. One of these (in trench 6) contained sufficient Roman pottery to be reasonably confident that it is of Roman date. Many of the ditches and gullies investigated are probably field drains of modern date as some features (in trenches 6, 9 and 12) contained ceramic drains or other 19th or 20th century artefacts. Two of the linear features (in trenches 7 and 11) were stone-filled gullies, which had the appearance of masonry wall footings when initially revealed but proved on excavation to be modern land drains. Field boundaries and drainage features are generally of low archaeological significance, although mapping the Iron Age and Roman features would help to define the extents of Alchester and add significantly to understanding the agricultural hinterland of the settlement.
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Author:		 S Leech
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Publisher:		 Oxford Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2013
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Parish: Chesterton
Country: England
County: Oxfordshire
District: Cherwell
Grid Reference: 457139, 221119 (Easting, Northing)
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CREMATION (Monument Type England)
ROMAN CREMATION (Tag)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
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Created Date:		 10 Mar 2023