Huts at the site between Brasenose and Magdalen woods became home to dozens of families in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. It is hoped the research will pave the way for educational tours of the site.

Thirty flats are being developed at Brasenose College's Frewin Annexe. Oxford Archaeology's senior project manager, Ben Ford, said St Mary's College, which had already been a "significant ...