The Old Vicarage 2 Church Close East Hagbourne Oxfordshire

In March 2014 Oxford Archaeology were commissioned by Sarah Maitland Parks to
undertake an archaeological watching brief during the excavation of footings for the
rebuilding of a boundary wall at The Old Vicarage, 2 Church Close, East
Hagbourne, Oxfordshire (SU 52571 88266). The watching brief revealed a probable
pit which produced post-medieval finds and an undated north-south aligned linear
feature adjacent to an existing property boundary. The diffuse western edge of this
feature may have indicated a hedge-line with the more well defined eastern edge
representing an adjacent ditch. The overlying deposits reflected the use of Vicarage
garden and comprised a buried soil horizon beneath a very humic deposit of varying
thickness which is likely to represent an imported topsoil.