Europe, British Isles, South-Central England, Oxfordshire, Dorchester on Thames [Map]

Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire is in Oxfordshire.

Around 550. Gewisse was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom based in the upper Thames region around Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire [Map]. In 552 the Gewisse captured Old Sarum [Map]. In 556 the Gewisse captured Barbury Castle [Map].

In 634 Bishop Birinus of Dorchester came to England landing at Hamwic where he founded St Mary's Church, Southampton. He was appointed Bishop of Dorchester.

In 650 Bishop Egelbert (age 25) was appointed Bishop of Dorchester.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 650. This year Egelbert (age 25), from Gaul, after Birinus the Romish bishop, obtained the bishopric of the West-Saxons.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 660. This year Bishop Egelbert (age 35) departed from Kenwal; and Wina held the bishopric three years. And Egbert accepted the bishopric of Paris, in Gaul, by the Seine.

In 660 Bishop Wine of London was translated to Bishop of Dorchester. Possibly.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 670. This year died Oswy (age 58), King of Northumberland, on the fifteenth day before the calends of March; and Egferth (age 25) his son reigned after him. Lothere, the nephew of Bishop Egelbert (age 45), succeeded to the bishopric over the land of the West-Saxons, and held it seven years. He was consecrated by Archbishop Theodore (age 68). Oswy was the son of Ethelfrith, Ethelfrith of Ethelric, Ethelric of Ida, Ida of Eoppa.

In 670 Bishop Lothere was appointed Bishop of Dorchester.

After 934 Archbishop Oscytel was elected Bishop of Dorchester.

In 1016 Bishop Æthelric was consecrated Bishop of Dorchester.

In 1034 Bishop Eadnoth was consecrated Bishop of Dorchester.

In 1053 Bishop Wulfwy was elected Bishop of Dorchester.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 15 Apr 1053. In this year was the king (age 50) at Winchester, Hampshire [Map], at Easter; and Earl Godwin (age 52) with him, and Earl Harold (age 31) his son, and Tosty (age 27). On the day after Easter sat he with the king at table; when he suddenly sunk beneath against the foot-rail, deprived of speech and of all his strength. He was brought into the king's chamber; and they supposed that it would pass over: but it was not so. He continued thus speechless and helpless till the Thursday; when he resigned his life, on the seventeenth before the calends of May; and he was buried at Winchester in the old minster. Earl Harold, his son, took to the earldom that his father had before, and to all that his father possessed; whilst Earl Elgar took to the earldom that Harold had before. The Welshmen this year slew a great many of the warders of the English people at Westbury, Wiltshire [Map]. This year there was no archbishop in this land: but Bishop Stigand held the see of Canterbury at Christ church, and Kinsey that of York. Leofwine and Wulfwy went over sea, and had themselves consecrated bishops there. Wulfwy took to the bishopric which Ulf had whilst he was living and in exile.

On 06 Jun 1241 John Gifford (age 61) died at Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire [Map].

In 1257 John Gifford (age 55) died at Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire [Map].

On 29 Jan 1622 Francis Norreys 1st Earl Berkshire (age 42) shot himself with a crossbow at Rycote, Oxfordshire [Map]; probably deliberately.

On 31 Jan 1622 Francis Norreys 1st Earl Berkshire died of the wounds he had received two days earlier. He was buried at Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire [Map]. His daughter Elizabeth Norreys 3rd Baroness Norreys Rycote (age 19) succeeded 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote. Earl Berkshire and Viscount Thame extinct.

Bede. In short, we afterwards saw five bishops taken out of that monastery, and all of them men of singular merit and sanctity, whose names were Bosa, Eda, Oftfor, John, and Wilfrid. We have above taken notice, that the first of them was consecrated bishop at York; of the second, it is to be observed that he was appointed bishop of Dorchester. Of the two last we shall speak hereafter, as they were consecrated: the first was bishop of Hagulstad [Map], the second of the church of York; of the third we will here take notice, that having applied himself to the reading and observation of the Scriptures, in both the monasteries of Hilda, at length being desirous to attain to greater perfection, he went into Kent, to Archbishop Theodore, of blessed memory; where having spent some more time in sacred studies, he also resolved to go to Rome, which, in those days, was reckoned of great moment: returning thence into Britain, he took his way into the province of the Wiccii, where King Osric then ruled, and continued there a long time, preaching the word of faith, and making himself an example of ofood life to all that saw and heard him. At that time, Bosel, the bishop of that province, laboured under such weakness of body, that he could not himself perform the episcopal functions; for which reason, this Oftfor was, by universal consent, chosen bishop in his stead, and by order of King Ethelred, consecrated by Bishop Wilfrid, of blessed memory, who was then bishop of the Midland Angles, because Archbishop Theodore was dead, and no other bishop ordained in his place. Before the aforesaid man of God, Bosel, Tatfrid, a most learned and indus- trious man, and of excellent ability, had been chosen bishop there, from the same abbess's monastery, but had been snatched away by an untimely death, before he could be ordained.

Europe, British Isles, South-Central England, Oxfordshire, Dorchester on Thames, Big Rings Henge [Map]

Big Rings Henge is also in South England Henges.

Carbon Date. 2510BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates

Report: Collagen, id as antler, red deer beam and tine (Annie Grant), Ref. 79a, from lowest silt of cursus ditch, at Dorchester Site VIII [Map], Oxfordshire, England. Subm R Bradley. Comment (subm): Confirms chronological context of cursus monuments (cf Dorset Cursus, BM-2438).

ID: 1874, C14 ID: BM-2443 Date BP: 4510 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 4410, End BP: 4610

OS Letter: SU, OS East: 582, OS North: 948

Archaeologist Name: R J C Atkinson 1949

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 31, 1989, 18; Oxford J Archaeol, 7, 1988, 271-89; Proc Prehist Soc, 58, 1992, 143-201

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

Carbon Date. 2320BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates

Report: Collagen, id as antler, red deer brow tine (Annie Grant), Ref. 87, from bottom of Ditch 1 (last ditch) at Dorchester Site XI 'Big Rings [Map]', Oxfordshire, England. Subm R Bradley 1984. Comment (subm): Confirms Neo attribution but comes from secondary phase.

ID: 1873, C14 ID: BM-2442 Date BP: 4320 +/- 50, Start Date BP: 4270, End BP: 4370

Abstract: triple-ditched enclosure

Archaeologist Name: R J C Atkinson 1949

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 31, 1989, 18; Oxford J Archaeol, 7, 1988, 271-89 [where s.d. given as 70]; Proc Prehist Soc, 58, 1992, 143-201

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

Carbon Date. 2320BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates

Report: Collagen, id as antler, red deer tines (Annie Grant), Ref. 33, from bottom of Ditch 1 (last ditch) at Dorchester Site XI 'Big Rings [Map]', Oxfordshire, England. Subm R Bradley 1984. Comment (subm): Confirms Neo attribution but comes from secondary phase.

ID: 1872, C14 ID: BM-2440 Date BP: 4320 +/- 90, Start Date BP: 4230, End BP: 4410

Abstract: triple-ditched enclosure

Archaeologist Name: R J C Atkinson 1949

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 31, 1989, 18; Oxford J Archaeol, 7, 1988, 271-89; Proc Prehist Soc, 58, 1992, 143-201

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

Carbon Date. 2230BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates

Report: Antler, id as probably red deer (R Wilson), from top of primary fill of ditch (Site I F81) at Dorchester-on-Thames Site I [Map], Oxfordshire, England. Coll R Chambers. Subm R Bradley. Comments (lab): Is new determination on material previously dated erroneously as BM-2268; (subm): Measured to establish TAQ for cremation burials cut into uppermost filling of ditch.

ID: 1923, C14 ID: BM-4225N Date BP: 4230 +/- 50, Start Date BP: 4180, End BP: 4280

Abstract: sited within E terminal of Dorchester Cursus

Archaeologist Name: R Chambers

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 27, 1985, 509-10 (original determination Radiocarbon, 32, 1990, 65 (revision Oxford J Archaeol, 1988, 7, 271-89; Proc Prehist Soc, 58, 1992, 143-201

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

1938. Major George Allen (age 46). Photo of Big Rings Henge [Map].

Antiquity 2022 Volume 96.2: Stonehenge: the Aubrey Holes. The sequence represented by the Aubrey Holes, in which a post circle is followed by a pit circle, is matched at other contemporaneous sites in Wessex and beyond; examples near Stonehenge include the Durrington Walls Southern Circle and Woodhenge (see Darvill 2006: 161–64). Further afield, a similar pattern is documented for the circles inside the cursus at Dorchester on Thames [Map], Oxfordshire (Bradley & Chambers 1988: 283). The presence of numerous cremation deposits in the secondary fills of the Aubrey Holes also finds parallels at other sites across Britain in the early third millennium BC (Darvill 2010: 147–52), although Parker Pearson and colleagues are correct to highlight the extraordinary scale of the Stonehenge cemetery in terms of the number of individuals buried there (Parker Pearson et al. 2020: 180).

Europe, British Isles, South-Central England, Oxfordshire, Dorchester on Thames, Queensford Farm [Map]

Carbon Date. 450. Late Iron Age Carbon Dates

Report: Bone, id as human, from F75, grave 250 at Queenford Farm or Queensford Mill [Map], Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. Subm R A Chambers. Comment (subm): No stratigraphic relationship between graves.

ID: 1601, C14 ID: HAR-5351 Date BP: 1550 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 1470, End BP: 1630

Abstract: Site I along route of Dorchester bypass, and to NE of Roman town

Archaeologist Name: R A Chambers

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 30, 1988, 337; Oxoniensia, 52, 1987, 35-69

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

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Carbon Date. 450. Late Iron Age Carbon Dates

Report: Bone, id as human, from F48, grave 229 at Queenford Farm or Queensford Mill [Map], Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. Subm R A Chambers. Comment (subm): No stratigraphic relationship between graves.

ID: 1600, C14 ID: HAR-5350 Date BP: 1550 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1480, End BP: 1620

Abstract: Site I along route of Dorchester bypass, and to NE of Roman town

Archaeologist Name: R A Chambers

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 30, 1988, 337; Oxoniensia, 52, 1987, 35-69

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

Carbon Date. 520. Early Medieval

Report: Bone, id as human, from F34, grave 216 at Queenford Farm or Queensford Mill [Map], Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. Subm R A Chambers. Comment (subm): No stratigraphic relationship between graves.

ID: 1598, C14 ID: HAR-5325 Date BP: 1480 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1410, End BP: 1550

Abstract: Site I along route of Dorchester bypass, and to NE of Roman town

Archaeologist Name: R A Chambers

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 30, 1988, 337; Oxoniensia, 52, 1987, 35-69

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

Carbon Date. 570. Early Medieval

Report: Bone, id as human, from F64, grave 244 at Queenford Farm or Queensford Mill [Map], Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. Subm R A Chambers. Comment (subm): No stratigraphic relationship between graves.

ID: 1599, C14 ID: HAR-5324 Date BP: 1430 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1360, End BP: 1500

Abstract: Site I along route of Dorchester bypass, and to NE of Roman town

Archaeologist Name: R A Chambers

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 30, 1988, 337; Oxoniensia, 52, 1987, 35-69

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767