Test pit

Test pits are excavation in miniature. All the processes that are carried out on a full scale-excavation, such as digging, recording, drawing, photography and taking soil samples, take place during the excavation of a test pit. Over the next three years we hope to dig as many test pits as possible. If you are interested in digging a test pit in your garden please contact Jane@archeox.net.

Test pit guide

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 31 October 2013 - 12:56pm

The attached .pdf file is a guide to test pit excavation

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Test Pit Guide NEW.pdf

Test pit 70: 48 Temple Road, Temple Cowley, Oxford

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 22 October 2013 - 3:41pm

This test pit was excavated in the garden of one of the older houses on Temple Road,showing on the oldest OS map with an associated orchard to the south. The area of garden inwhich the test pit was located was built up above the level of the house to the west and theroad to the north. One of the many wells in this area of Temple Cowley was a few metres tothe NW. The build-up seemed to have originated at least in the eighteenth century andpossibly earlier and was notable for slag, charcoal and clay pipe. Although not producing as

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EOXP TEST PIT 70_48 Temple Road.pdf

Test Pit 69: 117 Crescent Road, Temple Cowley, Oxford

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 22 October 2013 - 3:35pm

This test pit was one of a number dug in the Temple Cowley area on 29 and 30 June 2013. It was in the back garden of an Edwardian terrace house towards the top of Crescent Road opposite the back of the Salesian College.

For more information see the attached .pdf document

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EOXP TEST PIT 69_117 Cresent Road.pdf

Test Pit 68: 45 Temple Road, Temple Cowley Oxford

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 22 October 2013 - 3:27pm

The site of the test pit was the rear garden of 45 Temple Road, Temple Cowley Oxford. The testpit was excavated as part of a series of test pits excavated in the Temple Cowley area of Oxfordover the weekend of 29th and 30th June 2013

For more information see the attached .pdf document

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EOXP TEST PIT 68_45 Temple Road.pdf

Test pit 67: 8 Kirby Place, Temple Cowley, Oxford.

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 22 October 2013 - 3:16pm

A test pit was dug inside the small turfed back garden of a house registered in 1992 and lived in by the owner since 1999. Historically the 1879 OS map identifies the area as pasture and in thefirst half of the 20th century it was a timber yard owned by the Organ family.

For more information on the test pit see the attached .pdf document

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EOXP TEST PIT 67_Kirby Place.pdf

Test pit 60: St Georges House, 31 Cowley Road, Littlemore

Submitted by Olaf Bayer on 22 October 2013 - 3:09pm

Test pit 60 was located here as it would appear that it is one of the oldest building stillstanding in this area of Littlemore. Test pit 60 was one of two located in the gardens of StGeorges House on the Cowley Road in Littlemore. TP 60 was located in the back gardenwhich has a west facing aspect.

For more information see the attached .pdf documnet

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EOXP TEST PIT 60_St George's House.pdf