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The collection contains a site excavation notebook compiled by Reverend Charles Overy during his archaeological investigations at St Mary's Abbey, Abingdon in Oxfordshire. It contains extensive notes, diagrams and measurements as well as 2 photographs of human remains in a trench.
The Reverend Charles Overy (fl. 1922-1933) was a Church of England clergyman in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. He was an archaeologist and geologist who was involved in recording finds and excavations on sites such as Stonehenge and Chun Castle with Edward Thurlow Leeds. At the time that the notebook was compiled, Overy was living at Riverview in Kennington, Oxfordshire and was vicar of St Frideswide's church, Oxford.
The excavations at Abingdon were carried out by A E Preston & A C Baker. They have an NMR Excavation Index reference number: 631881.
The notebook was given to the NMR some time before 2008. It was found in one of the archaeological red boxes.
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