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The archaeology of East Oxford : Archeox - the development of a community / edited by David Griffiths and Jane Harrison with Olaf Bayer, Katie Hambrook and Leigh Mellor ; contributions by Louise Bailey [and 49 others].
Penn Museum Library DA690.O98 A73 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Thames Valley landscapes monograph ; no. 43.
- Thames Valley landscapes monograph ; 43
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Oxford.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Oxford (England)--History.
- Oxford (England).
- England--Oxford.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 260 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 x 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.0The 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.0This book 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introducing East Oxford
- Features
- Alexander Montgomerie Bell, and the Bell Collection of stone tools
- A Neolithic axe from Chester Street, East Oxford
- The Leopold Street and Burgess's Meadow Bronze Age Hoards
- Early Medieval Weapons from the River Cherwell at Magdalen Bridge
- Two Stone Heads
- ch. 2 Archeox: the emergence of a community
- The shared thrill of discovery
- Archeox at Boundary Brook Urban Nature Park
- ch. 3 Investigating a suburban landscape
- pt. 1 The test-pitting campaign
- The Oxfordshire Roman Pottery Industry
- Medieval Pottery found in Oxford
- pt. 2 Geophysical Surveys in East Oxford
- Feature
- South Park: interpretation of the earthworks
- pt. 3 Donnington Recreation Ground 2013: the excavation
- ch. 4 St Bartholomew's (Bartlemas) Chapel, surveys and excavations
- Leper hospitals, lepers and leprosy
- 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
- ch. 5 Excavations at Minchery Paddock (Littlemore Priory) 2012
- Excavation of the Priory Church, 2014
- The Littlemore Priory Book
- Nuns' Voices: Littlemore Priory
- The patronage of SS Mary, Edmund and Nicholas at Littlemore Priory
- Religion and rebuilding at St George's House, Cowley Road, Littlemore
- ch. 6 Place-names and the historic landscape of East Oxford
- 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
- ch. 7 A changing landscape and community
- Meet some of the team
- Chris Turley
- Christopher Lewis
- David Griffiths
- Graham Jones
- Greg Owen
- Jane Harrison
- Jeff Wallis
- Jennifer Laird and Mark Viggers
- Joanne Robinson
- Katie Hambrook
- Leigh and Gill Mellor
- Leslie Wilkinson
- Louise Bailey
- Mandy Bellamy
- Marcus Cooper with Charlie Cooper
- Molly Storey with Leo and Nell
- Northfield School (by Stella Collier)
- Olaf Bayer
- Peter Finn
- Phil Price
- RoelieReed
- Steve Nicholson
- Tim Lee
- Thomas Matthews-Boehmer
- Valeria Cambule
- Will Hemmings.
- Notes:
- Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781905905430
- 1905905432
- OCLC:
- 1233302397
- Publisher Number:
- 99990679936
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