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Summary

19th century or earlier report of skeletons found when building a mill dam on the Enborne

Monument Type(s):

• BURIAL? (Unknown date)

Full Description

An 1884 history of Newbury's Civil War battles included a report of several human skeletons taken out of the bed of the Enbourne (sic) when the mill-dam was constructed 'many years' before <1>. Walter Money thought that they might have been connected to the First Battle of Newbury; Wash Mill itself is near a building called Falkland Farm, but this is not the same building as Falkland Garth, also a farmhouse in the 17th century.

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