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look for.early floors. Medieval floors were indeed found,but'
seemed not to relate to the existing structure with.itasuPposed,
twelfth century blocked arch, rather to a robber trench of an .
unsuspected building on an earlier alignment. Further work in .1980.
may show how this new find relates to the thirteenth centUry
features of the central block, but in thé meantime it is Clear that
the 'twelfth century arch' should be regarded as' a relieving arch
for the fireplace.
39. RADLEY, Thrupp Farm - Godfrey Jones; Roger Thomas, Jeff.Wallis,
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Abingdon Area Archaeological. and Historical
Society
The work was undertaken on an area threatened by gravel
extraction, to investigate a ring-ditch known from aerial photographs
and a flint scatter located during field-walking (SU 525 872).
Features uncovered include (Fig.50 ):
F05. Ring Ditch - recently exposed with a central feature. No
dating evidence but regarded as contemporary with the other Iron Age
features. 10 m dia.
F04. Gully - with 4 crouched.child burial,. The inhumation was
recorded and raised,- pelvis', fedur,'partsof rib cage,,4:vertihrae,
illium radius 'andphalanges. No skull. NO. grave goods.
F03. Circular Gully - 10 m dia. One posthole?
F02. ,Ring-Ditch - 7 m dia. Deeper. than F05, F04 and F03, but
with F01 linear feature cutting through the centre, destroying
possible internal features. One posthole.
Penannular Ditch - By far the largest feature on site.
Apparent on aerial photographs and with at least three recuts and
some gravel back-filling. Two postholes found at entrance and one
large one in the terminal ditch.
Finds include: flint waste flakes (unpatinated); animal bone
fragments; a bronze coin of Tasciovanus - 15BC/5AD struck at
Camulodunum Mint; the pottery is ill-fired sand temper-ware (beadrim
bowls). The only decorated one so far had a slashed rim.
Palaeolithic hand axe (ppobably mid-Achaeulian); a white patinated
flint scraper (probably Neolithic); the most interesting.find has
been the handle end of an iron knife with rivet intact,
Linear Feature - one of several regularly spaced, shallow
ditches crossing the field - possibly medieval but of unknown
function.
The site seems to represent a small late Iron Age settlement,
one of a series of occupation sites in this iftmediate area, of.the
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