The Archaeology of East Oxford
Oxford University School of Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-905905-43-0 (ISBN)
Published by Oxford University in the Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph Series, this volume (no. 43) brings together the work of an award-winning, five-year lottery-funded university/community research project ("Archeox") on the landscape and history of East Oxford, part of the City of Oxford (UK). It documents field and geophysical surveys, archive and collections research, excavations at two Medieval ecclesiastical sites (a leper hospital and a Benedictine nunnery), at a prehistoric pit alignment, together with an extensive campaign of test-pitting which has given new insights into the Roman, Medieval and post-Medieval settlement pattern.
The book tells the prehistory and history of a formerly rural area on the eastern outskirts of Oxford which underwent rapid urbanisation after 1850, and is now an integral part of the city. The research plan relied upon engaging and working with the community to participate and to provide access to many study areas, and offered a comprehensive programme of training and education to all those who took part, ensuring that the work done was to an appropriately high standard. It has produced new insights into a number of nationally-important archaeological sites, gained new overviews of the development of the landscape, and brought out from obscurity many under-studied or forgotten finds in local collections. Fundamentally a project which sought to unite university and city, the contemporary story of people and their heritage is a key part of its message. Working in and among some of Oxford's most deprived communities, "Archeox" has been recognised as an exemplar of good practice in breaking down barriers to higher education. Over seven hundred people participated as volunteers, and the project reached many more through outreach and engagement programmes and events.
The book is extensively illustrated with many maps, plans and photographs, and is authored by 55 participants in the project, ranging from leading Professors of Archaeology to volunteers who are achieving published work for the first time.
David Griffiths is Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford, PI of Archeox Project. Jane Harrison is Research Associate and Tutor at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University. A graduate of Cambridge and Oxford universities, she completed her D.Phil at Kellogg College, Oxford in 2016, on Norse settlement mounds in the North Atlantic zone. A specialist in public engagement in Archaeology, she is a member of a number of interdisciplinary research networks covering northern world topics. Olaf Bayer is Archeox Project Officer, University of Oxford.
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Professor Richard Bradley FBA
Heritage and Community, Rt. Hon. Andrew Smith
CHAPTER 1: Introducing the Area……………………………………………………..
Features (follow chapter text):
Alexander Montgomerie Bell, and the Bell Collection of stone tools
A stone axe from Chester Street
The Leopold Street Hoard, East Oxford, and the Burgess’s Meadow Hoard
Early Medieval Weapons from the Cherwell at Magdalen Bridge
Two Stone Heads from East Oxford
CHAPTER 2: Archeox: the emergence of a community…………………………………..
Features
The thrill of discovery
Archeox at Boundary Brook Urban Nature Park
CHAPTER 3: Investigating a suburban landscape……………………………………………
Part 1: Test-pit evidence
Features
The Oxfordshire Roman Pottery Industry
Medieval Pottery found in Oxford
Part 2: Geophysical and Surface Surveys
Feature
South Park: interpretation of the earthworks
Part 3: Donnington Recreation Ground 2013: The excavation
CHAPTER 4: St Bartholomew’s (Bartlemas) Chapel, surveys and excavations……………
Features
Leprosy at Bartlemas
Rickets at Bartlemas and anatomical dissection at Oxford
Stable Isotopic Dietary Analysis of the Bartlemas skeletons
Bartlemas: its chapel, hospital and landscape
CHAPTER 5: Excavations at Minchery Paddock (Littlemore Priory) 2012 .........................
Features:
Excavation of the Priory Church, 2014
Littlemore Priory Book
Nuns’ Voices
The patronage of SS Mary, Edmund and Nicholas at Littlemore Priory
St George’s House, Littlemore
CHAPTER 6: Place-names and the historic landscape of East Oxford………………………………..
Features
The Boundaries of Cowley in AD 1004
Domesday Book and the Normans in East Oxford
Improvement and Enclosure in East Oxford
The Bath Street baths, St Clements, 1827-1879
Henry Taunt, a Victorian photographer in East Oxford
CHAPTER 7: Conclusion: A changing landscape and community……………………….
Meet some of the team:
Chris Turley
Christopher Lewis
David Griffiths
Graham Jones
Greg Owen
Jane Harrison
Jeff Wallis
Jenni Laird and Mark Viggers
Jo Robinson
Katie Hambrook
Leigh and Gill Mellor
Leslie Wilkinson
Louise Bailey
Mandy Bellamy
Marcus and Charlie Cooper
Molly Storey
Northfield School (by Stella Collier)
Olaf Bayer
Peter Finn
Phil Price
Roelie Reed
Steve Nicholson
Tim Lee
Thomas Matthews-Boehmer
Valeria Cambule
Will Hemmings
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Online archive: DOI
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.02.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph ; 43 |
| Zusatzinfo | 222 |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 215 x 300 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-905905-43-2 / 1905905432 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-905905-43-0 / 9781905905430 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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