Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at Thame Road, Longwick, Buckinghamshire 2017

This collection comprises of images, reports, site records and GIS from an archaeological evaluation and excavation of land adjacent to Thame Road in Longwick, Buckinghamshire, between April and July 2017, commissioned by Croudace Homes and undertaken by Oxford Archaeology. The site, centred on National Grid Reference SP 7875 0525 and lying at 85 meters above Ordnance Datum, has been proposed for a new housing development. The evaluation comprised of two areas that were excavated and this took place from the 27th June to the 3rd July 2017. The results of the evaluation confirmed the presence of archaeological features at the site, mainly comprising a modest number of linear features, laid out on an approximately North West-South East alignment. Some of the features, in the two most northerly of the three fields under investigation, were parallel with present-day field boundaries. Although most of these features remain undated, Roman pottery was recovered from one of them and medieval pottery was recovered from unstratified contexts. The excavation comprised a programme of open area excavation within two areas of the proposed development. The results of the excavation revealed part of a possible Roman trackway orientated North North-West-South South-East, which may have linked to the Lower Icknield Way, a prehistoric or Roman trackway, to the south.