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| Name: | Post-medieval quarrying and land reclamation - Assize Courts, Reading, Berkshire |
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| HER Number: | 02114.19.000 |
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| Record Type: | Monument |
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Summary
Test pitting at this site encountered evidence of post-medieval gravel quarrying and land reclamation.
Monument Type(s):
Description
The northern half of the 19th century courts had been terraced into the underlying chalk, thus removing any medieval deposits. The observation of test pits in the southern half of the site showed that the 19th century court buildings here were situated on made ground, almost certainly the infill of post medieval gravel pits which probably destroyed or severely depleted any medieval deposits <1>.
<1> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1987, Assize Courts The Forbury Reading Archaeological Evaluations (Unpublished document). SRD12635.
Sources
| <1> | Trust for Wessex Archaeology. 1987. Assize Courts The Forbury Reading Archaeological Evaluations. [Unpublished document / SRD12635] |
Associated Events:
| ERD37 | Assize Courts (Ref: W176) |
Associated Monuments
| MRD3963 | Post-medieval Reading, Berkshire (Monument) |
Associated Finds:
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