Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Austin House, Abingdon School, Oxfordshire, February 2022

This collection consists of images, spreadsheets, a database, report, GIS and site record data from an archaeological excavation by Oxford Archaeology. Work occurred at the site of a proposed new extension to Austin House, Abingdon School, Oxfordshire, in February 2022. The majority of features encountered on site dated to the medieval and post medieval periods, with only small quantities of residual Roman and late Saxon pottery suggestive of occupation in the wider landscape during these periods. The pottery assemblage similarly demonstrates that medieval activity was confined to the period c 1050-1250 and the inter-cutting nature of the ditches indicates activity was not limited to a single phase. The pottery and clay tobacco pipe assemblages suggest there was a hiatus in activity on site between the later 13th century and the mid- to late 17th century. The post-medieval features recorded during the excavation appear to have been 18th- to 19th-century in date and predominately related to quarrying and subsequent waste disposal.