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HER Number | MWB10113 |
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Record Type | Find Spot |
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Name | Newbury - black gravel under Bartholomew Street, Cheap Street and Market Street |
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Summary
Flint implements found in association with black gravel above the peat in Newbury
Associated Legal Designations or Protected Status
- Conservation Area: Newbury Town Centre
Other Statuses and Cross-References
- Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 01462.00.000
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
Wymer associated these flints with the pile structure in Bartholomew Street, and assigned them to the Maglemosian period <3>, but the original source <1> mentions only that 'several rude flints, some of large size, having the shapes of axe-heads, hammer-stones and cores, and some rough flakes' were found in the black gravel above the peat. This layer was exposed during drainage operations in Newbury in 1894, and the gravel was visible at The Black Boys (MWB19334) and other locations in Bartholomew Street, in Cheap Street and most of the Market Place (but not along Market Street). It appears in all of Northbrook Street, with a gap between the Jubilee Clock (now the Clock House) and the Bath Road; but 'there is a small deposit in Oxford Road' and another deposit coming from London Road to Shaw Bridge. The average thickness is 5 feet. Richards <2> interprets the black gravel as simply 'a long accumulation of road-mendings, mingled with rubbish and things lost and dropped by the way.. It is of course "historic" and is enriched with countless antique odds and ends.'
Sources and further reading
<01> | Newbury District Field Club. 1886-95. TRANS NEWBURY DISTRICT FIELD CLUB 1886-95 VOL 4. p206-10 Prehistoric and medieval antiquities discovered at Newbury. [Article in serial / SWB10455] |
<02> | Money, W. 1905 & 1972. A Popular History of Newbury (also Walter Money's History of Newbury). p5 and plate 4, p222. [Monograph / SWB11278] |
<03> | 1962. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 1962 28. 28. P329. [Article in serial / SWB11780] |
<04> | Wymer, J J (ed). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic sites in England and Wales. 20. P10. [Monograph / SWB10038] http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-281-1/dissemination/pdf/cba_rr_020.pdf (Accessed 07/10/2015) |
Related Monuments
MWB5397 | Opposite the Coopers Arms, Bartholomew Street (Monument) |
MWB5397 | Opposite the Coopers Arms, Bartholomew Street (Monument) |
MWB5399 | CHEAP ST - 'pile structures' (Monument) |
MWB5396 | In Northbrook Street - Mr Cary's shop (Monument) |
MWB5398 | MARKET PLACE - 'pile structure' (Monument) |
MWB5397 | Opposite the Coopers Arms, Bartholomew Street (Monument) |
MWB5397 | Opposite the Coopers Arms, Bartholomew Street (Monument) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
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