Middle Iron Age to Roman settlement at Swan School and Meadowbrook College, New Marston

Four  areas  were  excavated  by  Cotswold  Archaeology  at  Swan  School  and  Meadowbrook College, New Marston, Oxford. The site was the focus of settlement activity from the middle Iron  Age  period  up  to  the  end  of  the  Roman  period  in  the  fourth  century  AD.  The  main focus  of  middle  Iron  Age  settlement  was  two  enclosures  containing  pits,  a  sub-enclosure and the remains of three roundhouses. After a short hiatus, from around the middle second century BC, renewed activity in the late Iron Age/early Roman transitional period saw the establishment  of  a  trapezoidal  enclosure  and  two  trackways.  Activity  continued  into  the Roman period with the establishment of a rectilinear enclosure system focused on the junction of three trackways. During the third to fourth centuries AD the site was involved in pottery production, operating as part of the Oxford Roman pottery industry.