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Oxfordshire Tr. XXX 1 . ( Thatched Cottage Vaizey Cottage N.. -- --- 467 7.7. XXVIII Carlan \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 462 Tr. XXVII 453 457 0 2 4 metres Fig 7. Bampton, Thatched Cottage garden: excavation plan of sunken-feature-building and associated ditch, showing the first phase of the building. quantity of prehistoric flint, Romano-British and Medieval pottery, and a Medieval ditch. The main focus of activity clearly lay elsewhere. Oxford, Churchill Hospital (SP45430063) Mark Brett A watching brief was conducted during topsoil stripping prior to the construction of the Wellcome Trust Centre and its associated car-park. This revealed only post-Medieval cultivation activity. Sandford-on-Thames, Temple Farm (SP53170183) Nicholas Turner to be one of their largest houses outside London. After the Templars were disbanded in 1312 the site was taken over by the Hospitallers of St. John who held possession until the dissolution in 1534. A watching brief identified no evidence for structural remains on the southern and eastern sides of the existing buildings. Renovation work within the farmhouse revealed evidence of extensive alterations during the early part of the 20th century. It is thought that the western block of the farmhouse may be the only surviving element of the earlier buildings, with the majority of the fabric dating from the 17th century. Reused stonework, thought to be from the Medieval religious houses, had been extensively used in the construction of the barn, which had also been extensively altered in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Temple Farm, comprising farmhouse, barns and outbuildings, lies on the site of a preceptory of the Knights Templars. Founded in 1239-40, the Templars made Sandford their headquarters, and the preceptory is thought 53
Oxfordshire Fig 8. Bampton, Thatched Cottage garden: reconstruction of sunken-feature-building, seen from the north-east. UNIVEFtSITY OF OXFORD Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project: excavations at Segsbury Camp 1997 Gary Lock and Chris Gosden Introduction Excavations continued for a second season at Segsbury Camp (SU385844, Oxon SAM 209, also known as Letcombe Castle) over four weelcs in July 1997. These are part of the Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project which is designed to excavate a number of major sites along the Ridgeway between Liddington Castle in the west and Segsbury in the east and to set these in the context of a changing landscape represented by smaller sites, linear ditches and well-preserved field systems (Lock and Gosden 1997a; 1997b). The present report is an interim one, based mainly on the results of field recording, as post-excavation work is in progress The excavations provide training for both undergraduate students reading the BA in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford and students on the Department for Continuing Education Adult Summer School. We were also aided by a number of local volunteers, many of whom have dug with us in previous seasons. The emphasis on good quality training inevitably slowed the pace of work, but it was still possible to achieve the aims of the excavation in full. The Excavations Alum As with last year's work, the aims were to establish the character and dating of the construction and occupation of the hillfort in the light of existing work in the area. With the recent publication of the excavations at Liddington Castle (Hirst, et al 1997), together with Rams Hill (Bradley and Ellison, 1975; Needham and Ambers 1994) and White Horse Hill (Lock and Gosden 1997a; Miles and Palmer 1995), this area of the Berkshire Downs has increasing potential for detailed landscape study. Our research concerns concepts of cultural landscapes and especially notions of prehistoric history and their enduring impact on the physical landscape (Gosden and Lock 1998). A more site specific aim was the continuing work in conjunction with the Ancient Monuments Laboratory (AML) of English Heritage as groundproofing of their magnetometer surveys. This is part of the Wessex Hillforts Geophysical Survey Project (Payne 1997) which is having remarkable success in providing information on the interiors of hillforts. The final arrangement of trenches for the two seasons of work at Segsbury is shown in Fig 9. Trenches 2 and 3 were completed in 1996, Trench 1 was nearly completed in 1996 and partly re-opened and finished in 1997, Trenches 4, 5,6 and 7 were started and completed in 1997. All trenches except for 7 were positioned to investigate specific 54
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