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63Individual planning applications continue to be scanned through themedium of the weekly schedules received from the districts, but an improvedscreening system has been introduced in two of the five Districts, SouthOxfordshire and Cherwell, involving the use of revised and overhauled developmentcontrol sheets.The Museum has provided advice on proposed Conservation Areas at Drayton(N. Oxon), Wroxton, Rousham, Stanton St. John, St. Clements (Oxford), HeadingtonHill, Ewelme and Goring and also on the modification of an existingConservation Area at Ock Street, Abingdon.MEDIEVAL POTTERYTwo groups of medieval pottery have been found in the Faringdon area.A group from the River Thames, i mile W of Tadpole Bridge was brought in byMrs. Allen Stevens of Faringdon. Maureen Mellor of Oxfordshire ArchaeologicalUnit recognises jugs similar to the Gloucester type 44 and cook potsor large storage jars of Chiltern type fabric of the late C12th to the C14th.The other group from Sudbury House, Faringdon (kindly lent by Dr. Clock) includeda wide range of medieval and post-medieval ware. The medieval potterycould be divided into three groups: 1) Sandy wares of a type similar tothose from kilns at Mounty, Wiltshire or perhaps Gloucestershire (23 sherds).2) Pottery with a flinty/chalky fabric derived from the chalk ridge S ofFaringdon, 12th - C15th (24 sherds). 3) Oxfordshire Brill/type wares of theC14th and C15th with red slip applied strips and mottled green glaze on thecharacteristic biconical C14th jugs (90 sherds).Faringdon is about 30 miles from Brill as the crow flies but it wasrecently noted that Brill type wares were made 12 miles S of Brill.EARTHWORKSA previously unknown long barrow (PRN 10,925) on Well Ground, SE ofAscott-under-Wychwood village, was discovered by John Campbell in October1976. It lies across the top of a spur, with its long axis aligned approximatelyNE - SW. There are quarry ditches on either side, and a densescatter of stone along the mound, which is absent from the remainder of thefield. A survey was carried out by Lisa Brown, to be published in Oxoniensia.A previously unrecognised hill-fort at Abingdon was located by scanningaerial photographs taken in 1970 by the National Monuments Record (PRN 10,958). It consisted of an oval enclosure, approximately 100 m. E-W and300 m. N-S on a spur above the River Ock, about 200 ft. above sea level,with extensive all-round views, one and a half miles SW of Abingdon. Thesite had been ploughed out (cf. Ram's Hill) but Nancy Stebbing, Lisa Brownand John Steane picked up Iron Age pottery at SU 485959 and Romano-Britishpottery at SU 483958. A mesh of cropmarks of Iron Age and Romano-Britishdate is found outside the hill fort to the N and W.A survey of the ploughed-out remains of the Iron Age hill fort atMadmarston (PRN 1592) was carried out by Ival Hornbrook and John Steanehelped by children of Sibford Gower Primary School. A 20 m. grid was extendedover the whole site and artefact counts made. The exercise pointedto Neolithic and Bronze Age activity on the hill top; 106 worked flintsand flint flakes and cores were found within the ramparts of the Iron AgeFort. Only two sherds of Iron Age pottery were picked up but there were