The fieldwork methodology is presented in detail in the WSI following OA's standard approach to excavation and recording (OA 2018a) in line with national guidelines (CIfA 2014a). In brief, c 2.48ha was stripped for open-area excavation to investigate the Iron Age/Roman activity discovered during the previous geophysical survey and evaluation trenching (Fig. 2). The topsoil and subsoils were removed by a mechanical digger fitted with toothless ditching bucket under archaeological supervision. Soil was removed until the first archaeological horizon or the natural geology was reached A pre-excavation plan showing all revealed features was produced by digital survey. Data-capture for site plans was taken for reproduction at a scale of 1:100, with complex features or areas of complex archaeological remains recorded at greater resolution (for reproduction at 1:10, 1:20, or 1:50 as necessary). All plans were established relative to the Ordnance Survey National Grid and all levels were taken relative to Ordnance Datum. A sufficient sample of the revealed features was investigated by hand to establish their character and date. The level of hand excavation was agreed with Oxfordshire Planning Archaeologists, Hugh Coddington and Richard Oram, during continual on-site monitoring meetings. In most cases the following excavation percentages were followed: i. Structural features - 100% ii. Features relating to specialist activity - 100% iii. Burial contexts (in consultation with OA's Heritage Burials Services and under license from the Ministry of Justice) - 100% iv. Discrete features not relating to specialist activity - 50% v. Linear features - 10% or 10m, whichever was greater Excavations at Dunmore Road, Abingdon, uncovered activity dating between the early-middle Bronze Age and the early Roman period. An early-middle Bronze Age oven was radiocarbon dated and included a regionally significant assemblage of Biconical Urn pottery. Late Bronze Age activity was ephemeral but included one or possibly two cremation burials and a small amount of residual pottery. The main phase of activity consisted of occupation from the early Iron Age to the early Roman period. The earliest settlement was represented by a series of post-built and ditched roundhouses, pits, a four- and a six-post structure. Middle Iron Age activity was represented primarily by a series of enclosures accompanied by an inhumation burial and several pits. One of the enclosures was recut in the late Iron Ag...