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65650 Roman sherds. Christopher Young has identified mortaria and colourcoatedvessels from the Churchill kilns and other kilns in the Oxford areaas well as a scatter of Nene Valley wares. The dating of Roman re-occupationof the hill fort seems to be late C3rd and C4th A.D. Maps accompanying thisnote compare sherd weight and sherd count and indicate that the Roman settlementwas centred in the eastern and south eastern corners of the hill fort(Fig 10. Burned daub was found in this area and may indicate the presenceof ovens under the shelter of the rampart.Two archaeological features of interest in Eynsham have been recordedthis year. Jean Mitchell has picked up over 200 sherds of medieval potteryon the site of the new pavilion which has been built on the recreationground to the E of the site of Eynsham Abbey (PRN 11,255, SP 43580915). Theysuggest that early medieval Eynsham extended farther along High Street towardsthe Swinford crossing of the River Thames than appeared likely whenK. Rodwell produced her map in Historic Towns in Oxfordshire, 1975, p.115.Mr. H.C.D. Cooper has noticed that the moated enclosure S of the EynshamAbbey fishponds may well be the land belonging to "Herveus filius Petri"which included "the whole house plot with hall and garden ... across theriver towards Stanton". (H.E. Salter (ed) Eynsham Cartulary, Vol.1, 161)John Steane has followed this up with a survey of the fishpond earthworkswhich seem to have been under construction 1213-28. The plan (Fig 18 ) suggestsan interpretation of the possible sequence of monastic activities inthis area. The line A-A represents the former course of the Chil Brookdiverted by the abbey by the construction of a weir somewhere near the presentsite of the bridge across which Station Road runs S. A dam was builtat B blocking the stream and creating a water supply for the bays of thefishponds (1-6). C is a moated enclosure, very likely the house plot ofHervey, mentioned above. The line D-D is the suggested site of a former80 met re smcm.m =mAbbeyStreetStationRoadAbbey;Farm 111t,1. t-4 -4-4,--1J- 2 It 3 0.-1%.(1.11111\;11-iii-Llit:41, 3"i b- 4 z-.4-1L' ' '"- At::_.. _ ' 414 5 _';f /-,,. i ., /A I I ./.....((iy t....ir/13Di ,,, 'tr. P;(14 s',4- tg1r7.k v` s''' ' ' 4;61 x,,,,,,,,:#9:: '1.41-''' A .,.: 1,, -:(./ 42 1 :71 Bye1 ' :/ 1RailwayEYNSHAM ABBEY OXONFI SHPONDS PRN 4015Figure 18