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OA South carried out an excavation and watching brief on land formerly occupied by a late 19th-century extension to the rear of the Ashmolean Museum. The work was carried out in advance of a complete rebuilding of the extension in order to increase the size of gallery space and museum facilities.
A single evaluation trench within the Chinese galleries in 2006 had previously confirmed that significant archaeological deposits survived between the foundations of the existing building, and the fieldwork revealed evidence dating from the mid Saxon period to the late 19th century. The greater part of the excavated area fell within a tenement identifiable with a property documented from the early 13th century.
