Looking down from the museum roof, not a huge amount of building activity has happened in July. Archaeological excavations have progressed and more of the earth has the look of being dug over or terraced.

It also looks like a lot of material has been bagged and boxed up for going through with a teaspoon at a later date.

The pitched roofs, so typical of Abingdon’s past, are soon to be joined by the flat  roofs of the new flats planned for the Old Gaol development.

Those buildings added in the 1970s, shown here on this Google Maps Image, are gone, and the ground has been cleared.

The Old Gaol now stands like a castle in a large sandpit.

I would guess that the developers are hoping there are no significant finds, and the Abingdon Archaelogical and Historical Society would  hope for the opposite.