Lower Farm, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire: Report on Geophysical Surveys, April 1992, November 1994 and 1996
Author(s): Andy Payne, M A Cole
This report describes the results of a series of magnetometer surveys undertaken from 1992 to 1996 by the then Ancient Monuments Laboratory of English Heritage over a Roman pottery production site at Lower Farm, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire. The site was initially discovered during the laying of a water main prompting the wider geophysical investigation of the surrounding farmland. Over several stages of fieldwork, a total area of 12.7 hectares was surveyed resulting in a detailed plan of Roman enclosures, pottery kilns and trackways revealed with great clarity. The suitability of the underlying Jurassic geology in affording highly informative results from magnetometer survey was also amply demonstrated. These results, combined with field walking data obtained by Oxford Archaeology, clearly indicate that the industrial complex extends from Lower Farm where the pottery production activity was first recognised for at least 500m to the east and that the archaeological activity defined potentially also includes both a prehistoric and medieval component.
- Report Number:
- 225/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 10
- Keywords:
- Fluxgate Geophysical Survey Magnetometer