Brossler, Adam / Brown, Fraser et al. Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Kennet Valley - Excavations at Green Park (Reading Business Park) Phase 3 and Moores Farm, Burghfield, Berkshire. Oxford Archaeological Unit, 2013.

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Adam Brossler / Fraser Brown / Erika Guttman / Leo Webley

Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Kennet Valley

Excavations at Green Park (Reading Business Park) Phase 3 and Moores Farm, Burghfield, Berkshire

Oxford Archaeological Unit
2013

Taschenbuch
150 Seiten
ISBN 9781905905294

This volume presents the results of two excavations on the gravel terraces of the Lower Kennet Valley, at Green Park (Reading Business Park) Phase 3 and Moores Farm, Burghfield, Berkshire. The Green Park excavations uncovered a field system and occupation features dating to the middle to late Bronze Age. Five waterholes or wells were distributed across the field system, the waterlogged fills of which preserved wooden revetment structures and valuable environmental evidence. The pottery from the waterholes makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the middle to late Bronze Age transition in the region. Later activity included middle to late Iron Age boundaries, a late

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Iron Age cremation burial, a Romano-British field system and post- medieval trackways. The Moores Farm excavations revealed occupation from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, middle Bronze Age and early Iron Age. The middle Bronze Age settlement included pits, ovens and possible post structures, and was again situated within a contemporaneous field system dotted with waterholes. As well as discussing these two sites, the volume provides an overview of all of the work to date in the Green Park Farm/Reading Business Park area, exploring the development of this important prehistoric landscape.

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