Bronze Age, Roman and Later Occupation at Chieveley, West Berkshire

The archaeology of the A34/M4 Road Junction Improvement

£29.00
Author:
Andrew Mudd with contributions from Alex Thorne, Jane Timby, Tora Hylton, Ian Meadows, Val Fryer, Rowena Gale and Karen Deighton
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300382
Paperback:
100pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs including 6 in colour. With additional material online (A3 Figures)
ISBN 10:
1407300385
BAR number:
B433
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This report describes the results of the evaluations and excavations of the new A34/M4 interchange at Chieveley, West Berksire, England, and discusses the combined evidence from superficial and subsurface finds. It is concluded that there was a significant intensification of activity in the area starting in the Middle Bronze Age following a sporadic earlier prehistoric presence. This continued into the Late Bronze Age. The lack of Iron Age material is noted and there seems to have been a re-intensification of occupation in the late Iron Age or early Roman periods. The few early-middle Saxon pits were divorced from a settlement context and remain enigmatic.