Green Park (Reading Business Park): Phase 2 Excavations 1995 : Neolithic and Bronze Age SitesIn 1995 a second phase of excavations was undertaken by Oxford Archaeological Unit (OAU) at Reading Business Park in advance of development. This volume reports on the occupation evidence they found dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age and medieval periods. The Neolithic features included an unusual segmented ring ditch, and a number of pits and postholes, with associated flint assemblages dating to the late Neolithic. A field system, composed of rectangular boundary ditches, was laid out in the area prior to the establishment of the late Bronze Age settlement. The evidence for the late Bronze Age settlement included five roundhouses, and a number of post-built structures. The excavators also found numerous deposits of burnt flint that were made in one area in the later Bronze Age, and over time these grew into a substantial and unusually large elongated burnt mound. The authors discuss the origin of these deposits, together with the management of the overall landscape in the later Bronze Age. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Summary of first phase of excavations | 3 |
2 Plan of the Neolithic segmented ring ditch | 7 |
Copyright | |
36 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
4-post structures Aldermaston Wharf animal bone bowl Bronze Age date Bronze Age pottery bucket urns burnt flint burnt mound cal BC Chapter charcoal circular clay matrix containing coarse common amount contexts cremation debitage decorated diameter discoidal cores exterior fabric containing fabric types field system Figure fill of pit fired clay flakes gravel grey Grooved Ware Hooked rim ibid identified iron oxide late Bronze Age later Neolithic LBA pot LBA pottery located loomweight material medieval middle Bronze Age Moore and Jennings Neolithic Ovoid jar palaeochannel Peterborough Ware pieces Pingewood pollen porch postholes prehistoric quartz Quercus R11 rim radiocarbon dated RBP1 excavations Reading Business Park recovered round base roundhouses samples sand sarsen segmented ring ditch settlement sherds sherds of late silt silty clay similar sorted flint sparse suggests surface Table Total tree-throw holes unworked flint upper fill vessel forms watching brief waterhole 1015