 Evidence of Bronze Age barrows together with later prehistoric and early Roman field systems was found on the site.The "Mansfield Road Club" was established in 1960 by Jack Cox and Rupert Cecil as a successor to the informal staff club which first met in the old Zoology Department in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and which later moved to a basement room in Keble Road.Jack Cox joined the Biochemistry Department in 1926 at the age of 15, and retired after 50 years' service in 1976.