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Monument Type(s):

• SETTLEMENT (Middle Iron Age - 400 BC to 101 BC)
• BOUNDARY DITCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 200 AD)
• BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• CORN DRYING OVEN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• DITCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• INHUMATION CEMETERY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• INHUMATION CEMETERY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• STRUCTURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• TRACKWAY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Early Medieval - 410 AD to 800 AD)

Summary

Sites B & C (Main excavation area). Mainly MIA, but also Roman ditch and nearby cemetery. C5-8 Anglo-Saxon pottery found in two areas, as well as earlier material.

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds:

Description

1) Excavations have revealed Middle Iron Age gullies, postholes and sub-rectangular enclosures indicating settlement, truncating these deposits is early Roman ditch running parallel with Akeman St. Also structures of both agricultural and domestic nature. A Romano-British cemetery is situated nearby. Anglo-Saxon pottery was also found in two areas dating from the 5th to the 8th centuries.
3) Small assemblage of Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts.
5) Monograph on excavations in northern extramural area of the town, c 500m N of its defences and close to the line of Akeman Street. The excavations have produced Neolithic/Bronze Age flintwork, residual Beaker material and evidence for MIA settlement, extensive activity throughout the Roman period and for post Roman burials. Smaller scale work elsewhere on the road scheme uncovered a BA burial, LIA to early Roman settlement, and elements of the field systems relating to the Roman town.

<1> General reference, P M Booth, J Evan, J Hiller: Excavations in the Extramural Settlement of Roman Alchester, Oxon,1991 (Bibliographic reference). SOX373.

<2> Additional Information in Detailed Record File, Chapter 10 from above publication (Index). SOX258.

<3> Additional Information in Detailed Record File, Chapter 6 from above publication (Index). SOX258.

<4> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1991, A421 Wendlebury-Bicester Dualling: Post Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design (Unpublished document). SOX2574.

<5> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 2002, Excavations in the Extramural Settlement of Roman Alchester (Monograph). SOX1712.

<6> OAU Newsletter, Arch News vol xvii no 4 December 1989 pp.13-15 (Article in serial). SOX270.

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