Land to the South of Seelscheid Way and Northeast of Aylesbury Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire

Red River Archaeology Ltd. was commissioned by Orion Heritage Ltd. to undertake a programme of archaeological evaluation on land to the south of Seelscheid Way and northeast of Aylesbury Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire. Two trenches were excavated, both 20m long by 1.6m wide which revealed ditches either of agricultural origin or possibly forming the SW end of a burgage plot associated with Wretchwick DMV to the NE. The archaeological features found in the evaluation comprised two parallel ditches (one identified in a geophysical survey), 9.8m apart and of very similar dimensions dating to the medieval period. These and a possible return in the western end of Trench 1 may form the southwestern end of a burgage plot extending from known medieval settlement activity in the field immediately to the northeast. Adjacent and outside the plot was a backfilled medieval rubbish pit. No upstanding walls or buried soil horizons/surfaces were identified it is likely that the development area is on the extreme edge of the medieval activity in the area.