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7. Post.Medieval:: -Various sites- have been .examined including a tile
kiln, an area-of ridge-and furrow, a 'causeway on the. path between
Garford and Frilford and a cuckoo-pen',
3. GREAT COXWTLL - Ken Edward, C Gould, David Miles and G Wright
Badbury Hillfort: Thirteen Iron Age sherds have been found on
three disturbed areas of the south-west and south rampart. These
include fine black, burnished wares, some carinated and one with a
plain flaring rim. One sherd is decorated with incised triangles
bordered by fine stab marks.
the ridge immediately eaSt of the hillfort vertical aerial
photOgraphs (Fairey Surveys) reveal two large ditched enclosures'
possibly associated with'the-hillfort.-
Bury Hill (Area ceiltred st 268939);
On a sOuth-east facing slope
of the Corallian Ridge, immediateliacross-the streaM west of the
Great. Barn, Romano-British pottery has been founcidensely sCattered
oVer an.area 0.1.5 hectares, .The material includes SaMian, an
amphora handle, early Romano-British wares and soMe late Romano-
British pottery. including Oxford wares.
site has also produced a scatter of flint, -some of it probably
Mesolithic.
.0n the west bank .Of the stream.,A90 M West .Of St Giles ChurCh'A
single sherd 41 4th century mortarium rim Was found. The field was
under crop.
Great Coxwell village: Three bronze Roman coins from a garden
40 m west of St Giles church and 10 m south of the village Pump were
found, as well as,sherds of 1St century, Romano-British pottery in the
same garden, 50 m south of the coins.
Foxley: (pteViously the Royal. Oak public house),15Um west of
St Giles churchand.overlooking the streAM. In-1923 Iron Age-sherds'
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were found.in a garden west of the house,-now surfaCed with conCrete
and Inaccessible. These have, been examined and included 6 sherds of -
haematite ware including part of a'carinated vessel and a rim 6f, a
carinated And cordoned veSsel decOrated with incised Slantinglines-on
the shoulder. 125 other Sherds Were Mostly of a Coarse shelly Ware .
common in the Upper Thames. region, Also 3:Romano-British greyware
sherds.
The garden immediately west of the church has produced 12th to
14th century pottery, including South Oxfordshire, Kennet Valley, East
Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire'types,
Area Centred SO 267 929, on Coralliah-sand,.. cropmarks of .
enclosures, linear features and possible circles; from RAF verticals
1967.
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