Abingdon Community Fridge and Larder

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Abingdon Community Fridge will be at Hadland Road Community Centre on Saturday from 10:30-11:30. Just turn up armed with your mask and bags.

This is helping us as a community to save food waste. There is no membership fee but lots of helpful volunteers trying to get the food to you before it is wasted. (Also Monday 5 – 5:30 pm and Thursday sessions 1 – 2 pm.) Occasionally there is not enough waste and the session is called off – maybe that is good thing. You may have to check Facebook to be sure at other times.

There is also Abingdon Community Larder at Trinity Church Hall on Friday 2 – 4 pm. They are part of https://www.sofea.uk.com/, providing food that would otherwise go to waste to people at a reduced cost. For this you pay a small membership fee. Members are not means tested, and generally people join to get low cost food of high quality.

Today the tree was decorated

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Today the tree on the Market Place was decorated and the festive candles were put up.

Across the Market Place, work is underway to create a Starbucks where M&Co once were.

On Stert Street, Missing Bean were moving in rails of clothes and have put up a notice that says ‘Take – two : New & preloved boutique.’

Some of the town lights came on this evening and the rest will soon follow.

P.S. A sign in the window says that “take-two” is a pop-up shop open every Thursday from 5 to 8pm. Thanks to Martin for pointing that out.

Abingdon is growing again

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Daniel is fully airborne again and flying like an eagle over the new development – called Kingsgate, between the Wootton Road and the Dunmore Road.

Some of the houses are complete or nearing completion.

Others are just outlines in the snow.

Abingdon had stopped expanding after the large expansion through the 1940s-1980s, but now Abingdon is growing again.

Spring Road Cemetery with Peterborough ware and Copper Awl

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Agricultural land, beside Spring Road, was purchased by Abingdon Town Council and converted into a cemetery in 1940

Every now and again the grave diggers would find things of historic interest: old graves, tools, broken pots, and jewelry. One Cemetery Superintendent, Bill Skellington, has recorded the details of a lot of the finds (Neolithic, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and more recent.) The occupants of old graves were re-interred in new graves by him and his staff.

Around the year 2000 AD, a large trenched area was dug in the unused part of the cemetery to allow archaeologists to investigate some of the undisturbed land before it was used for cemetery burial. A book all about the dig, in 2000 AD, called ‘Saved from the Grave – Neolithic to Saxon – Spring Road Municipal Cemetery’ was written by T Allen and Z Kamash.

This picture shows some of the Neolithic pots in Abingdon Museum. The photograph of pots at the back are of ones found at Barrow Hills and were given the name of ‘Abingdon Ware’ because that type of pot was first found in Abingdon.

The pot at the front is half of an elliptical dish, called Peterborough Ware – because the first one, with this patterning, was found near Peterborough. This is the dish shown in the ‘Saved from the Grave’ book – found in Spring Road Cemetery.

There is also a copper awl on display in the museum found in a female grave. The label says it is one of the oldest copper tools ever found in Britain.

Most artifacts now go to the Oxfordshire Museum stores at Standlake. I expect the current grave diggers still find artifacts that need recording.