St Antony’s College Oxford

In July 2008 Oxford Archaeology (OA), carried out a field evaluation for St Antony's
College, Oxford, commissioned by Nik Lyzba of John Philips Planning Consultants.
Two evaluation trenches were excavated in the college gardens. Trench one
revealed Victorian soils and a Victorian brick wall, possibly forming the south wall of
a backfilled cellar. Trench two revealed that the natural gravel had been truncated to
a depth of 1.6m by quarrying. The quarrying was backfilled, probably prior to the
formation of the garden of St Mary's Home in the Victorian period. A Victorian
garden feature and soils were also revealed, again associated with the St Mary's
Home garden