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Two sites on opposite sides of Ock Street, in Abingdon reveal fascinating details of medieval and early post-medieval tanning, leather working and horn processing industries, which seem to have begun in the 13th century on the north side of the street and moved to the south side by the late 14th or 15th century. Although noxious and anti-social, these industries seem to have generated significant wealth for the proprietors, and not the least of the points of interest is the suspicion that their workers existed on a diet almost entirely of beer.
Outside Abingdon at Drayton, we examine a small network of medieval fields, paddocks and droveways which underwent successive periods of alteration between the 11th and 14th centuries before being abandoned, in marked contrast to the continuous urban development of the town.
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