NEW!
Winter Programme
The Archaeology of the Wittenhams
Introduction
This
year a total of eight trenches were opened up, five around Hill Farm and
the Wittenham Clumps, three on Clifton Meadow by the Thames downriver
from Clifton Hampden. The six-week season involved more than 200 volunteers
supervised by Oxford Archaeology, and we would like to thank everyone
who took part. Some of the team camped in the grounds of the Manor at
Little Wittenham, and we are grateful to Martin Wood for giving us permission
to use this delightful location and its facilities. The
Northmoor Trust provided us with a magnificent barn for our HQ, and their
staff were as ever very helpful. We would particularly like to thank John
Sargent for reorganising his farming programme around us.
The
results of the excavations are very exciting. Using the geophysical surveys
carried out by Time Team in 2003, and by volunteers on the project in
2004, we were able to target specific areas to answer important questions
about the date and development of the area. During the season we also
carried out further geophysical surveys at Northfield Farm and in Clifton
Meadow to assist in placing trenches, and we are grateful to Messrs W
& J Emmett and to Miss Bowditch and her land agent Graham Howard for
allowing surveys to take place.
