Site and Post-Excavation Data from an Excavation at Savile House Music Practice Rooms, Oxford New College, Oxford 2015-16

This collection comprises reports, site photographs, CAD data, spreadsheets, and site records from an excavation carried out in September 2015-16 by Oxford Archaeology at the site of Savile House Music Practice Rooms, New College, Oxford. Part of an extant bank was investigated prior to an extension to the building. The earthwork, likely to have originated as part of the inner Civil War defences of Oxford, was found to seal possible postholes of medieval date that probably formed part of a field boundary that the earthwork later followed. It was carefully constructed with two main dumps comprising reddish loam over which was compacted gravel, likely to have derived from a ditch dug on its north side. From the late 17th until the mid 19th centuries, pitting suggests that area of the bank was used for the dumping of rubbish.