What lies beneath?
From the the Saxons through the Romans and the Normans, if you start digging in Oxford you're bound to bump into ancestors before too long.
Here is just a small selection of archaeological finds as photographed by the Oxford Mail over the decades.
Suitably, digging these old pics out of our vast library takes a bit of archaeological expertise in itself...
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