From Stadium to Station : Rewley Abbey and Rewley Road Station, Oxford

by Munby, Julian; Simmonds, Andy; Tyler, Ric; Wilkinson, David R. P.; Adlam, Lance (CON); Allen, Martin (CON); Cotter, John (CON); Brown, Hannah; Gaeotano, Elizabeth de; Martin, Lucy; Tyler, Ric; Wachnik, Magdalena

• ISBN13: 9780904220407
• ISBN10: 0904220400
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

This report presents the results of over 40 years of excavation, historic building survey and documentary research that has been carried out by Oxford Archaeology and others at the site of the Cistercian house of Rewley, a chantry founded in 1280. It became an abbey and stadium providing accommodation for monks studying at the university, and can therefore claim to be one of Oxford's earliest colleges. The railway station that subsequently occupied the site in 1851 followed the design of the Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition, and was the last surviving representative of that internationally important building.

Table of Contents

Historical background	p. 6
Archaeological description	p. 10
Finds	p. 33
The medieval coin	p. 33
Jettons	p. 33
Medieval and post-medieval pottery	p. 33
Clay tobacco pipes	p. 43
The ceramic building materials	p. 52
Glass	p. 57
Building stone Fiona Roe, with a note on the architectural stone by Julian Munby	p. 59
Other finds metalwork by Ian Scott, worked bone by Rosemary Grant, whetstone by Fiona Roe and flint by Rebecca Devaney	p. 59
Previous finds	p. 61
Human skeletal remains	p. 61
Animal bone	p. 63
The Rewley road station : the coming of the railway	p. 64
Dismantling and re-erecting the station	p. 93
A mid-19th century group of clay tobacco pipes	p. 99
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