Reports and Images from a Trial Trench Evaluation on Land at Hill Top Road, Oxford, 2019

This collection comprises a report and site photographs from an archaeological trial trench evaluation on land adjacent to Hawthorne House, Hill Top Road, Oxford. The work was undertaken by Albion Archaeology in 2019. The trial trenching of the proposed development area took place on 28th August 2019. No archaeological remains or unstratified artefacts were present within the trenches. Modern deposits, including brick and concrete, were found to overlie and be mixed in with the topsoil of the trenches, suggesting material had been dumped in this area and the existing topsoil disturbed during the process. The thicker areas of these deposits broadly correlated with the anomalies identified in the geophysical survey as possible kilns. It is thought that the presence of this modern material and the associated disturbance may be responsible for the geophysical anomalies. The absence of remains here suggests that the known prehistoric and Roman activity to the south-west and east does not continue into the area.

本数据集包含牛津市希尔顶路霍桑宅邸毗邻地块的考古试掘评估报告与现场影像资料。该评估工作由阿尔比恩考古事务所（Albion Archaeology）于2019年开展，拟建开发区域的试掘作业于同年8月28日完成。试掘探沟内未发现考古遗存或未分层人工遗物；探沟表层土壤之上及内部混杂有砖、混凝土等现代堆积，表明该区域曾有垃圾倾倒行为，且原有表层土壤在此过程中遭到扰动。此类堆积较厚的区域与地球物理勘探中被判定为疑似窑址的异常区域大致重合，据此推测，上述现代堆积及伴随的扰动正是造成地球物理勘探异常的原因。本次勘探未发现遗存，表明此前在该区域西南及东侧发现的史前与罗马时期人类活动痕迹并未延伸至本次评估地块范围内。