Mytholinguistics (Linguistics)

[Wile E. Coyote]

Wiley hasnt really looked at Oxford.

Ortho is something like Anglo-Saxon settlers arrived around the 8th century designated this exact shallow spot as "Oxenaforda" (the ford for oxen). it was a natural ford connecting cattle trails, so to service this crossing point a small Anglo-Saxon village grew up around it which then later became fortified, and eventually Oxford.

Maybe there was many fording points?

Of course ortho has sought the original https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly_Bridge

Of the little I know, there is very little Saxon stuff within Oxford. Ortho is very excited about anything Saxon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4q0l3e5x6o

The official explanation is as you would expect its all under Oxford Castle.

The great majority of archaeology of Oxford Castle is clearly a Norman, large motte and bailey castle, built post conquest by Robert d'Oilly, its claimed the Saxon bit is underneath.

My best guess is that stone for the castle was brought in from Headington quarry, and they used Oxen pulled carts, you need Oxen rather than horses for heavy loads of stone.

Its pretty much all Norman and later.