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OTHER SITES RECORDED.IN 1979
Unless otherwise stated the following reports are by RiChard.
Chambers. The full records of each site described will be.deposited
under. their individual Primary Record Number at the Oxfordshire
Department of Museum Services.
ABINGDON, Box Hill - Duncan Wilson
Construction of a building in the garden of 47 Bowyer Road
(OS SU 4990 7999) disturbed seven skeletons (PRN 12, 113) which
cut through late Roman settlement features (PRN 12, 114). The 'three
stratified skeletons were buried head to toe, on a north-south
alignment, in a single grave. No dating evidence was assodiated
with the burial, but a 4th.century terminus post quem for the
grave is provided by late Roman pottery and a 3rd century denarius
fragment, from the gully which it cuts. Roman and early Saxon
parallels exist for practice of laying stone slabs on the body, as
noted at Box Hill.
ABINGDON, Nuffield Way Allotmenta
The Abingdon Archaeological and Hiatorical Society ia maintaining
a-watch for archaeological material:whilai dcintract'ors lay services
for the Yale of the White Horse District Council to-the south of the
M.G. works for the latest extension of the induatrial estate. A
Romano-British cemetery lies:along the northern edge of the site and
it ip hoped that it.will be possible.to explore this early'in '1980.
16. ABINGDON, Peachcroft.Houalng, Estate
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Several fragments of bronze metalwork including a Roman Zof
century AD enamelled brooch have been found during building,operations
on the Peachcroft Housing Estate which is sited on the northern edge
of Abingaon Parish:(PRN' 11,882; Centred SU 512 988).
ABINGDON, AbingdOn. School
Romano-British settlement features and domestic refuse were
exposed during the building of the neW'schoOl theatre. Romano-
British material bas been found close by on several previous.
occasions (VRN 12,112; Centred SU 4945 9532).
ABINGDON, 60-64 West St. Helen's Street
TWo sections were obtained by removing the cellar walls to'
properties nos 63 and 64 in order to obtain general information On
the nature and extent of any pre-medieval occupation levels. As with
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