Work has been underway for about 4 weeks now investigating the archaelogical heritage of the field off the Drayton Road which could be developed with 159 houses.
In places the topsoil and subsoil have been removed to make way to excavate some deeper trenches.
The introduction to the archaeological field evaluation says earlier work “found mid to late Iron Age remains that would fit the character of a farmstead …”
Work is concentrating to the northeast and east of the site, up near the Drayton Road on the side nearest Abingdon.
i got talking to one of the team working there and he said that the excavation would probably take 14 weeks.
The thing I fail to understand most about this proposed building site and all the objections being made about lack of infrastructure/inadequate roads and an already overloaded Drayton Rd/Ock street junction is the fact that less then a mile further along the same road 74 houses are planned for the outskirts of Drayton, Surely they will only add to the problem ?