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Deadman's Burial, Eynsham, Oxon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Humphrey Case
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Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 116 , December 1955 , pp. 233 - 236
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1955

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1 National Grid : SP/423078. O.S. 25-in.: sheet xxii, 11. The site is at about 220' O.D.

2 Allen negative 526. Ashmolean Museum.

3 The Summertown-Radley gravel and the flood plain alluvium of the Thames just fail to overlap, and the Oxford clay comes to the surface between them. The feather edge of the gravel shown on FIG. I is taken from O.S. geological map (Drift) sheet 236; it corresponds roughly with a line of springs south-east of the site.

4 Plan ofthe Manor of Ensham … by Thomas Pride (1782). Oxfordshire County Records. The road is shown in its modern position on the Enclosure Map of 1800. Chambers, , Eynsham under the Monks (Oxfordshire Record Society, XVII, 1936)Google Scholar, gives references to maps of Eynsham.

5 I quote by kind permission of the President and Scholars of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The name ‘Deadmanes buriall’ also appears in a terrier of 1697 belonging to the College.

6 Using the method evolved by Atkinson. Field Archaeology (1953), 31-8.Google ScholarPubMed Mr A. G. Fenwick, Dr W. Glasbergen and Miss E. Rutter kindly assisted at various times.

7 Oxoniensia, V, fig. 1, XVI, pl. 1; VII, 105-7, XVI, 79.

8 Excavations at Dorchester (1951), 81–107 Google Scholar.

9 Oxoniensia, VIII-IX, 24–34 Google Scholar.

10 A.N.L., IV, No. 4, 58 Google Scholar; Oxoniensia, XVII-XVIII, 216 Google Scholar.

11 The Oxford Region (ed. Martin, A. F. and Steel, R. W., 1954), 79 Google Scholar.

12 Oxoniensia, III, 21-6Google Scholar.

13 Oxoniensia, VI, 85-6Google Scholar, and pl. XI.

14 Oxoniensia, VIII-IX, fig. 8.

15 It is interesting to see the area north of the Eynsham-Stanton Harcourt road and of the Deadman's Burial, called ‘Barrow Hill’ in 1615, and ‘Round Hill Furlong’ in 1782.

16 Cf. Atkinson and others, Excavations at Dorchester, fig. 27. The site at Marden, Wilts, (loc. cit., 104), is left out of the question.