Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.
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'Oxenton', in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds( London, 1976), British History Online, accessed November 27, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/p91c.
"Oxenton". Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. (London, 1976), , British History Online. Web. 27 November 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/p91c.
OXENTON
(18 miles N.N.W. of Cirencester)
Iron Age pottery, including Iron Age 'A' forms and ware with incised decoration, worked and other bones, and flints from this parish are in Cheltenham Museum; some items are provenanced 'Woolston Camp' and 'Camp Openham', probably meaning Oxenton Knolls. Potsherds in Birmingham City Museum include three pieces probably from a production centre near the Malvern Hills (PPS, XXXIV (1968), 427).
(1) Iron Age Settlement (SO 973313), on Oxenton Knolls, was excavated by T. G. E. Powell in 1931. An irregular mound of loose stones and clay about 22 ft. across contained Iron Age pottery, apparently of more than one period as shown by the reported presence of situlate vessels and duck-stamped ware. The mound (a on plan, p. 92) occupied the E. end of a long flat-topped natural knoll of the Marlstone Rock Bed of the Middle Lias, now almost entirely broken up and defaced by quarry-pits and dumps. Potsherds were also found in rabbit scrapes on the S.W. edge of the knoll. There are no clear signs of any defences on the hill-top, but steep scarps drop for 35 ft. or so on all sides, except in the extreme W. where the knoll attenuates into a long banklike ridge, cut into by quarries. Near the foot of the S.E. and S.W. scarps are banks of uncertain origin, up to 80 ft. across and 10 ft. high, without ditches; they lie beside the line of a former parish boundary. Extensive areas of quarrying occur immediately downhill from the banks.
TBGAS, LV (1933), 383–4. Arch J, XCV (1938), 94. Witts (1883), 40, No. 80.