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 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.