T H A M E S V A L L E Y ARCHAEOLOGICAL S E R V I C E S
Tickledown, Wallingford Road, Nr Mongewell, Oxfordshire
Archaeological Watching Brief
by Andrew Mundin
Site Code: TWM14/201
(SU 6157 8716)
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$ % N P & $ ' ( # )( ( $ *+,-.+/ Q N N & & $ " "? J Q D B 0 ) @# ! " " # Q Q " F Banbury Bicester Witney 89000 Thame Abingdon OXFORD Didcot Wallingford Wantage Henley-on -Thames SITE 88000 SITE 87000 86000 85000 SU60000 61000 62000 63000 TWM 14/201 Tickledown, Wallingford Road, nr Mongewell, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 2014 Archaeological Watching Brief Figure 1. Location of site in relation to Mongewell and Wallingford within Oxfordshire. Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Explorer 171 at 1:12500 Ordnance Survey Licence 100025880 SITE 87200 87100 SU61500 61600 TWM 14/201 N Tickledown, Wallingford, Road, Mongewell, Oxfordshire, 2014 Archaeological Watching Brief Figure 2. Detailed location of site off Wallingford Road. Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping under licence. Crown copyright reserved. Scale 1:1250 87175 out building new footing demolished driveway terrace (terraced) drain 87150 this part backfilled from excavation levelling ground Existing house (Tickledown) SU61550 61575 TWM 14/201 N Tickledown, Wallingford Road, nr Mongewell, Oxfordshire, 2014 Archaeological Watching Brief Figure 3. Location of observed areas. 0 10m W E Made ground buried turf/toposil subsoil chalk (natural geology) base of trench TWM 14/201 N Tickledown, Wallingford Road, nr Mongewell, Oxfordshire, 2014 Archaeological Watching Brief Figure 4. Representative section (NW footings) 0 1m Plate 1. Location of watching brief, looking south west. Plate 2. Footing trenches looking west. TWM 14/201 Tickledown, Wallingford Road, nr Mongewell, Oxfordshire,2014 Archaeological Watching Brief Plates 1 - 2. TIME CHART Calendar Years Modern AD 1901 Victorian AD 1837 Post Medieval AD 1500 Medieval AD 1066 Saxon AD 410 Roman AD 43 BC/AD Iron Age 750 BC Bronze Age: Late 1300 BC Bronze Age: Middle 1700 BC Bronze Age: Early 2100 BC Neolithic: Late 3300 BC Neolithic: Early 4300 BC Mesolithic: Late 6000 BC Mesolithic: Early 10000 BC Palaeolithic: Upper 30000 BC Palaeolithic: Middle 70000 BC Palaeolithic: Lower 2,000,000 BC Thames Valley Archaeological Services Ltd, 47-49 De Beauvoir Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5NR Tel: 0118 9260552 Fax: 0118 9260553 Email: [email protected] Web: www.tvas.co.uk