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Dorchester on Thames (or Dorchester-on-Thames) is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Wallingford and 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford. The town is a few hundred yards from the confluence of the River Thames and River Thame. A common practice of the scholars at Oxford was to refer to the river Thames ...
[citation needed] The Roman road between Dorchester-on-Thames and Alchester runs through the centre of Berinsfield. [2] An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was also found at Berinsfield. [3] The village is on the site of RAF Mount Farm, a satellite of RAF Benson, initially used to train bomber pilots.
The Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, more usually called Dorchester Abbey, is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford. It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral .
Anglo-Saxon 5th century grave goods excavated in the 19th century in Dorchester on Thames (curator Helena Hamerow) Staffordshire Hoard (commentary by Sam Newton) Anglo-Saxon fortress remains at Bamburgh Castle (director of the excavation Graeme Young) Anglo-Saxon village excavation at Lanton Quarry (director of the excavation Clive Waddington)
Dorchester-on-Thames: Roman Catholic church: 1849: 14 May 1986 1369090: Church of St Birinus. More images. The Bridge and Causeway ...
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A large late-Roman and Christian cemetery has been excavated at Poundbury just to the west of the town, but little is known of Durnovaria's decline after the departure of the Roman administration. The name, however, survived to become the Anglo-Saxon Dornwaraceaster and modern 'Dorchester'. The residents of modern day Dorchester are known as ...
Neolithic to Saxon social and environmental change at Mount Farm, Berinsfield, Dorchester-on-Thames: 2010: OA Occasional Paper Castle Hill and its landscape: archaeological investigations at the Wittenhams, Oxfordshire: 2010: Oxford Archaeology Monograph The late Roman cemetery at Lankhills, Winchester, excavations 2000-2005: 2010