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Oxford Archaeology appointed to the Home and Communities Agency

Thursday, 05 August 2010
Oxford Archaeology have been appointed as providers of archaeological and heritage services to the Homes and Communities Agency, the the national housing and regeneration agency for England with an annual investment budget of more than £5bn. Together with our consultancy partners including Savilles, Parsons Brinkerhoff, WSP, Broadway Malyan and Pell Frischmann we look forward to working with the HCA (and a range of other public sector bodies who share this procurement portal) on the design and delivery of major schemes across England.
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Oxford Archaeology wins Thameslink project

Thursday, 05 August 2010

Oxford Archaeology and our project partners Pre-Construct Archaeology have been appointed to undertake archaeological works as part of the £5.5bn Thameslink development for Network Rail. This major engineering scheme sees a significant upgrading to the north south rail connection across central London. Archaeological recording has already begun on the approaches to London Bridge Station and we anticipate important finds from the Roman, medieval and later levels in Southwark.

Displaying Langley Abbey, Norfolk

Wednesday, 04 August 2010

During spring 2010, a combined OA East and OA South team worked on a commission to provide 18 display boards for the newly restored surviving buildings – primarily the west range and inner gatehouse – of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Langley on the Norfolk Broads.

Wednesday, 04 August 2010

Eastlands stadium and Bradford ironworks

It was a successful season for Manchester City Football Club in 2009/10; the club finished fifth in the Barclays Premiership league, had record numbers of supporters, and signed some new players of international repute. Most importantly, however, some world-class archaeological remains were exposed adjacent to their state-of-the-art new stadium at Eastlands by a team from OA North.

A villa uncovered at Bredon's Norton

Thursday, 08 July 2010

The foundations of a large Roman masonry building, thought to be part of a villa, have been found at Bredon's Norton, Worcestershire, during a series of excavations along a new 17 km water pipeline being built for Severn Trent Water. The 15 m wide pipeline easement clipped one corner of the building to reveal a room with a stone-flagged floor, sections of painted wall plaster, and stone peg-tiles from the roof, all indicating a building of high quality and status.

Thursday, 24 June 2010

Archaeologists at St Brieuc in Normandy reached the bottom of the ditch of the defended Iron Age enclosure, which is 5.5 m deep on the east side. Here there were 1 m of waterlogged deposits, in which archaeologists found numerous amphorae and much wood, as well as layers of leaves.

Furness Abbey

Thursday, 24 June 2010

Furness Abbey sits within a secluded steep-sided valley in the Furness Peninsula, south Cumbria. It was the first, and most important, foundation of the Savigniac Order in Britain. In 1124, Stephen, then Count of Boulogne and Mortain and later King of England, invited a small group of the newly-established congregation from Savigny in Mortain, northern France, to settle in Tulketh near Preston. However, this initial foundation was abandoned after only three years and the community relocated to the site that became Furness Abbey.

Thursday, 24 June 2010

March saw two enormously successful events about the Weymouth Relief Road, which were organised by OA South with Dorset County Council.

Excavations at Carlisle are completed

Thursday, 24 June 2010

After a final push in the run-up to the Christmas deadline, the threat of catastrophic floods, snow, and the addition of a drainage run through the most sensitive (and previously undisturbed) part of site, the CNDR Parcel 27 site was completed on time and under budget (just). Right up until the last minute, the finds jumped out of the slime, and the stratigraphy continued to resolve and reveal itself. Spirits weren’t always high, it has to be said, but, to its credit, the team soldiered on, even though many staff had nothing apart from the dole to look forward to, or worse – France (only kidding!). But we (or rather the team – you know who you are) did it – well done all!

Thursday, 03 June 2010

A University of Southampton archaeologist and Oxford Archaeology have found evidence that Neanderthals were living in Britain at the start of the last ice age, 40,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Commissioned by Oxford Archaeology, the university’s Dr Francis Wenban-Smith discovered two ancient flint hand tools at the M25 / A2 road junction at Dartford in Kent, during an excavation funded by the Highways Agency. Tests on sediment burying the flints show they date from around 100, 000 years ago, proving Neanderthals were living in Britain at this time. The country was previously assumed to have been uninhabited during this period.

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