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scattered collection of artefacts.
Site 5 is a chance find of. a Late Neolithic handaxe.
Bronze Age:. Differentiation between the Late. Neolithic end -
Bronze Age is. difficult and there may be Overlap on the,preVidus
sites; A planoHconvex knife,was found in the area Marked X on Fig,37,
500 m north Of the Village,
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Iron Age: ,There are two sites of this period. .Site 3, contains
a discrete scatter. of Middle Iron Age pottery, possibly with an'
earlier Iron Age element.
Site 7 includes:an ùneven scatter of Middle Iron Age'pOttery
spread over Sorne 300 m south of Kingstonhill Farm. --This may
represent an extensive settlement or a manuring scatter.
Romano-British:
in the parish:'
There are five probable sites of this:period
'Site 7 at Kingstonhill Farm hes.beentested by excavation,
OM. Parrington, 'Roman Finds and Animal Bones. from Kingston Hill.
Farm,.Kingston Bagpuize, Oxon','OxOniensia, 41 (1976),.657,69Y and is
probably the aite-ofa:farmstead or villa'occupied from the:Mid-lst to
4th centuries. .-The farmstead occUpies.light, well-drained sdils at
the junction Of-good potential pasture to the northand arable. to
.the south On.the.same belt of soil, at North Audiey Fem. 400,m to
the north-east, there'is'probably another Romand- British eettlement
(Site 11) whichshas-produced pottery and coins.
South of the village on sandy loam overlooking a:stream-Site 8
is tepreSented by a scetter of pottery and a little building'miterial.
Site 9, also on sandy'lom 1 km north of the Rii:rerOck, probablY
includes aRoManised building,with tile among, the pOttery. There is
no dating evidence.from.Site 10, the only cropmark site in.the parish,
though the form ofthe:enOlosures suggests thty belOng to 'the-Iron
Age or Romanperiod:
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--' Saxon: Early.Saxon pottery has been found only at the Kingstonhill
Ferm site. .The charter eVidence iS very detailed end mentions a
heathen.buriai.plece near. the north-west corner Of the parish boundary.
The north-eastern stretch of the parish boundary still survives as a
bank and ditch and is Called in the charters the 'old boundetY'.
6, THOMLEY, Deserted Médieval.yillage - Heather Bird, John-Moore and
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Chambers'
A survey. of the eXisting.earthworks was carried. out in April 1919
by two in-service traineesJohn Moore and Heather Eird.:, -
ThoMley(PKN-1,017) firstsientioned,in.1086in'the'DOmesday'
Survey but the village ceases to feature.in tax returnsefter-,W7.'
The population census of 1841 records 13 people.resident (K. J. Allison,
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