Overview
- The Bloxham Underground Tunnel Society, formed in 2024, says recent surveys confirm multiple walkways beneath the Oxfordshire village.
- A builder’s excavation in March exposed a larger 130-foot passage with chambers, expanding the known network.
- An earlier expedition in August found a 40-foot tunnel with blocked side channels after Birmingham University cavers checked it was safe.
- Finds include Victorian glass, pottery, a leather sole, and animal bones including what the team believes is a red deer skull that they aim to carbon-date.
- Archive reports from 1908 and 1954 echo the long-told folklore, yet researchers say the tunnels’ date and purpose remain unproven as they line up more sites to check.