Oxford Archaeology

Founded in 1973, Oxford Archaeology has a 40 year history of quality, innovation and service. As a multi-disciplinary practice, OA cover all aspects of the historic environment, providing everything from archaeological excavations and evaluations, through provision of complex geospatial data management and analysis systems to heritage consultancy services. Most archaeological work today is carried out in advance of development. Oxford Archaeology is one of the leading service-providers in this field, with thousands of clients who recognise their expertise in excavation and heritage management. Visit their services page for more information, and a range of case-studies. As a registered educational charity, Oxford Archaeology also care about helping people to discover and enjoy their heritage. They have welcomed many thousands of visitors to excavation sites on open days and tours, and volunteers have taken part in many of their major excavations.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 230

ISBN: 9780904220650

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph

Illustrations: 110 illus.

Description:

Excavation in advance of engineering works along the M1 from Junctions 6a to 10 (between Hemel Hempstead and Luton) revealed significant archaeological remains of wide-ranging date. Important evidence for late Mesolithic and early Neolithic activity, including pits, was found at Junction 9, while later prehistoric features were more widely distributed but less concentrated. Late Iron Age and Roman features were most common, with significant rural settlements at Junctions 8 and 9, and further evidence for trackways and enclosures elsewhere.

RRP: £20.00

Format: Hardback

Pages: 620

ISBN: 9780904220681

Pub Date: 15 Oct 2012

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph

Description:

Excavations along the new road line have revealed nearly 6000 years of human activity, from a massive marker post erected by early Neolithic farmers at the head of a dry valley to a bizarre burial of several different animals dating to the sixteenth century AD. Prehistoric discoveries include two enclosures of the middle Bronze Age, both associated with some of the earliest cobbled roads in Kent, a collection of Iron Age storage pits rich in diverse deliberate offerings, and the emergence of a nucleated hamlet in the middle Iron Age. Most exciting were rich cremation burials of the late Iron Age and early Roman periods, probably successive generations of a local family, whose rise to prominence coincides with the growth of the cult centre at Springhead nearby.

Landscape and Prehistory of the East London Wetlands Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 313

ISBN: 9780904220704

Pub Date: 21 Jun 2012

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph

Description:

Archaeological investigations carried out during improvements to five key junctions along a stretch of the A13 trunk road through the East London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham have revealed evidence for activity spanning the Mesolithic through to the post-Roman period. Regionally important evidence of Neolithic activity included artefact assemblages of pottery and worked flint. A rare cache of charred emmer wheat provides definitive evidence of early Neolithic cereal cultivation in the vicinity and a fragment of belt slider made from Whitby jet attests the long distance exchange networks.

Trade and Prosperity, War and Poverty Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 375

ISBN: 9780904220674

Pub Date: 31 Aug 2011

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Description:

Southampton was one of England's leading medieval ports, with its trade in commodities such as wine, wool and cloth making it among the most prosperous and cosmopolitan towns in the country during the 13th and 15th centuries. From the late Saxon period, the heart of the city lay between two streets, English Street and French Street, an area known as the 'French Quarter'. A major new investigation of this area revealed an impressive series of medieval buildings with vaulted cellars, containing rare and exotic finds.

The late Roman cemetery at Lankhills, Winchester Cover

Format: Hardback

Pages: 569

ISBN: 9780904220629

Pub Date: 01 Dec 2010

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Description:

Lankhills and its late Roman cemetery have played a significant role in the understanding of the military in civilian areas of Roman Britain in the fourth century, and these new excavations double the number of graves explored and add to the variety of finds represented. New analytical techiques show that some of those buried were immigrants from other parts of Europe and perhaps even North Africa. The new excavations revealed a further 307 inhumation graves (plus six more partly excavated previously) and 25 more cremation burials.

RRP: £25.00

Format: Paperback

Pages: 234

ISBN: 9780904220537

Pub Date: 01 May 2009

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Illustrations: b/w illus

Description:

Archaeological investigations, undertaken as part of a programme to restore St George's Church, Bloomsbury, to its original Hawksmoor splendour, involved the removal of 871 triple lead-lined coffins from within the crypt and monitoring works within the churchyard. The elaborate named coffins of upper middle class parishioners provided a valuable opportunity to greatly develop the new field of post-medieval coffin analysis, and to integrate historical, archaeological and osteological data in order to build a vivid picture of this population. Over 90% of coffins were named, which allowed a rare opportunity to blind test osteological methods on 72 skeletons, whilst analysis of documentary and osteological evidence has challenged some long-held beliefs in post-medieval burial archaeology.

RRP: £12.99

Neolithic to Saxon Social and Environmental Change at Mount Farm, Berinsfield, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire Cover

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780904220599

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2008

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Description:

Excavations at Mount Farm revealed a long sequence of activity running from the early Neolithic to the early Saxon period. The most significant finds include early Neolithic pit deposits, a middle Neolithic oval barrow associated with a primary burial and a secondary Beaker burial, a timber post-ring, an earlier Bronze Age round barrow associated with Deverel-Rimbury secondary burials, a later Bronze Age waterhole and burnt mound, extensive remains of an Iron Age settlement and a well-preserved Anglo-Saxon well. This is an innovative report which approaches the site from a thematic perspective which highlights social, economic and environmental change over the long period during which the site was occupied.

Settlement on the Bedfordshire Claylands Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 430

ISBN: 9780953153152

Pub Date: 08 Nov 2007

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Bedfordshire Archaeology Monograph

Description:

Excavations at nine sites along the route of the Great Barford Bypass provided a rare opportunity to investigate an extensive area of the South Midlands claylands, a landscape that has hitherto seen little archaeological work. The excavations produced evidence for the long-term development of the social landscape, agrarian economy and environment of the area from prehistory to the Middle Ages. Sporadic occupation took place during the Neolithic and Bronze Age, with systematic colonisation first occurring in the later Iron Age.

RRP: £14.95

Roman Rural Landscape at Kempsford Quarry, Gloucestershire

Format: Paperback

Pages: 52

ISBN: 9780904220414

Pub Date: 14 Sep 2007

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Oxford Archaeology Occasional Paper

Description:

An area of 6 ha just east of Kempsford was examined in 2000-2001 in advance of gravel extraction. The earliest features belonged to a field system defined by ditches probably dug in the late Iron Age. This was replaced in the early Roman period by a very regular layout of trackways linking field systems to settlements lying just outside the excavated area, all part of a programme of radical landscape reorganisation in the wider region.

Fairfield Park, Stotfold, Bedfordshire Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 176

ISBN: 9780953153138

Pub Date: 25 Aug 2007

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Bedfordshire Archaeology Monograph

Description:

The excavations at Fairfield Park revealed a later Bronze Age hilltop enclosure and an extensive early Iron Age settlement. As one of the first large-scale excavations of an early Iron Age settlement in eastern England, the site makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the later prehistory of the region. In particular, the evidence sheds much light on issues of the organisation of settlement space and practices of ritual deposition.

RRP: £14.95

Recent Developments in the Research and Management at World Heritage Sites Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 80

ISBN: 9780904220476

Pub Date: 18 Jul 2007

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Oxford Archaeology Occasional Paper

Illustrations: col illus

Description:

The papers published in this volume were presented at a seminar on 'Recent Developments in Research and Management at World Heritage Sites' held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London. This was part of the Wiltshire-Malta World Heritage Exchange Project funded by the European Union AER Centurio Programme. While most of the papers focus on prehistoric and megalithic sites in Wiltshire and Malta, others consider education, cultural landscapes, research strategies, and a Neolithic landscape in China.

RRP: £7.50

Excavations in Broad Street, Reading Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 48

ISBN: 9780904220421

Pub Date: 15 Apr 2007

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Occasional Paper

Description:

Excavations at 7-8 Broad Street, revealed part of a possible 16th- to 17th-century tavern or inn, situated behind the street frontage. Discoveries included a stone built cess pit and a cellar, built in the 16th century and demolished in the 17th century. A large collection of pottery associated with the serving and consumption of drink, fine Venetian-style glassware and a few early clay pipes were recovered from these features.

RRP: £15.00

Format: Paperback

Pages: 112

ISBN: 9780904220407

Pub Date: 24 Mar 2007

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Oxford Archaeology Occasional Paper

Description:

This report presents the results of over 40 years of excavation, historic building survey and documentary research that has been carried out by Oxford Archaeology and others at the site of the Cistercian house of Rewley, a chantry founded in 1280. It became an abbey and stadium providing accommodation for monks studying at the university, and can therefore claim to be one of Oxford's earliest colleges. The railway station that subsequently occupied the site in 1851 followed the design of the Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition, and was the last surviving representative of that internationally important building.

RRP: £7.50

The Tower of London New Armouries Project Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 80

ISBN: 9780904220360

Pub Date: 12 Jun 2006

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Occasional Paper

Description:

The New Armouries was built against the medieval inner curtain wall at the Tower of London in 1663-4 as a small arms store, and was later used for displays of the Royal Armouries collections. On the opposite side of the curtain wall a range of buildings providing soldiers' houses was constructed in the mid 17th century. This was rebuilt as the Irish Barracks by Dugal Campbell in the 1750s, but was demolished during the 19th century.

RRP: £7.50

Excavations in the extramural settlement of Roman Alchester, Oxfordshire

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780904220278

Pub Date: 01 Mar 2002

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

The Excavation of a Medieval Rural Settlement at the Pepper Hill Lane Electricity Substation, Northfleet, Kent Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 40

ISBN: 9780904220285

Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001

Imprint: Oxford Archaeology

Series: Oxford Archaeology Occasional Paper

Illustrations: 10 b/w figs, 13 tbs

Description:

The construction of a new electricity substation at Northfleet, Kent provided an opportunity to investigate the archaeological remains at the site. Excavations in 1999 revealed field boundaries, paddocks and structural remains dating to the 11th and 12th centuries, possibly relating to the settlement known as Wenifalle in the late 12th century. The proximity of the Roman settlement at nearby Springhead has tended to distract from the later settlement in the area, so the results of this excavation represent a useful addition to the modest body of evidence relating to medieval settlement in North Kent.