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EYNSHAM ABBEY FISHPONDS PHASE 3 UPDATE
Specialist Reports HERE - map HERE - winter 2007/8 HERE - summer 2008 review here
If you would like to be involved please call Verity Hughes 01865 880243 or email
2007 October: the two interpretation boards have now been installed: images below.
Thanks to the grant from TOE (Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment), Phase 3 is now complete.
May: new seating on Monk's Green
The two 'new' logs for seating on Monk's Green come from 200- year old oak trees from Buren Estate.
Email: verity@eynsham.demon.co.uk
Web: TOE
Negotiating a path through the trees
Diggers on the way to remove silt from the moat round Harvey’s House Mound, and from part of the bed of the old Chilbrook, revealing the medieval landscape.
Cutting the first turf
Ian Hutt and Graham Podbury took immense care with the digging. Paul Hughes stands by.
The Big Dig - 1
John Richards of Phototechniques records the event for a future show in the Village Hall
The Big Dig - 2
Looking towards the log seats and Monk's Green. The area will be filled over time by water that still finds its way along the old river bed and by the stream which flows from the spring in Abbey Field.
Things can only get better
A toad surveys the scene. Click on any image to enlarge.
Graham approves
Graham Keevill, the archaeologist who has been involved with the Abbey excavations and the Thames Water pipeline across Harvey’s House, has kept a watching brief on the entire project.
Click on any image to enlarge.
Web: Archaeological Unit
Later that summer ...
A view of the new pond on 20 July, just before the flood that engulfed the area.1st Interpretation Panel
in the car park off Station Road, showing how the area might have looked before 1217.
2nd Interpretation Panel
visualising the scene after the Abbot decided to extend the Abbey precinct and build the fishponds.
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