Digital Archive from an Archaeological Trial-Trench Evaluation at Bicester Burnehyll Community Woodland, Bicester, Oxfordshire, March and April 2022

This digital archive contains images, database data, spreadsheet, harris matrix and report data from a second phase of archaeological trial-trench evaluation undertaken by Oxford Archaeology at the site of a proposed community woodland project near Bicester, Oxfordshire, between March and April 2022. Cherwell District Council commissioned the fieldwork in order to inform their woodland design to help protect archaeological remains. The site is in an area of considerable archaeological interest, situated immediately north of the Roman town of Alchester, close to the crossroads of two Roman roads. A preceding geophysical survey of the site undertaken in 2019 detected a number of anomalies of probable and possible archaeological origin, across seven areas. These included linear anomalies suggestive of a trackway and associated rectilinear field system across Areas 1 and 2 and a series of linear and curvilinear anomalies suggestive of a large sub-circular enclosure and rectilinear enclosure/field system in Area 6. An initial phase of evaluation of Area 5 carried out by Oxford Archaeology in 2020 revealed the remains of a late Bronze Age/Iron Age ditch and a second undated ditch, which corresponded with features identified in the geophysical survey.

本数字档案包含2022年3月至4月间，由牛津考古（Oxford Archaeology）在牛津郡比斯特附近一处拟建社区林地项目场地开展的第二阶段考古试掘评估（trial-trench evaluation）所产生的影像资料、数据库数据、电子表格、哈里斯矩阵（Harris Matrix）及报告数据。查韦尔区议会（Cherwell District Council）委托开展此次野外工作，旨在为其林地设计提供依据，以助力保护考古遗存。该遗址位于极具考古价值的区域，紧邻罗马城镇阿尔切斯特（Alchester）北侧，毗邻两条罗马道路的交汇处。2019年开展的前期场地地球物理勘探（geophysical survey）在七个区域内识别出多处大概率或可能为考古成因的异常迹象：其中1区与2区内的线性异常迹象推测对应古道及相关矩形田块系统，6区内则存在一系列线性与曲线形异常迹象，推测对应大型近圆形围场及矩形围场/田块系统。2020年牛津考古对5区开展的初步评估工作，发现了晚青铜时代/铁器时代的壕沟遗存与另一处未测定年代的壕沟，这些遗存与地球物理勘探中识别出的遗迹相吻合。