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Monument Number 237998

Hob Uid: 237998
Location :
Oxfordshire
Vale of White Horse
Abingdon on Thames
Grid Ref : SU5038098420
Summary : Site of an earthwork of uncertain age or function on the upper Oxford Road, Abingdon. The siting agrees with an earthwork called `Serpenhills' by Leland in the C16th.
More information : [SU 50389842, sited approximately from plan fig. 2].
Traces of a bank and ditch c. 390' long extend along a footpath
leading to Radley, on the N. side of a large field opposite the
turn to Northcourt, on the upper Oxford Road, near Abingdon.
Much slighter traces of a bank extend for the same distance on
the east side, but nothing was visible on the other two sides.
The site is comparable with the unfinished Park Wood
intrenchments at Hampstead Norris [SU 57 NW 14] and it fits the
position, described by Leland, of an earthwork called
`Serpenhill'. (See illustration card). (1)

All traces of this earthwork have been destroyed by a housing
estate.

Sources :
Source Number : 1
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Source details : Berks. A.J.,40,1936, 164-5. Plan fig. 2, (Huntingford)
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : F1 GHP 05-JUN-63
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Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Uncertain
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Monument Type : Earthwork
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 59 NW 34
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1963-06-05
End Date : 1963-06-05