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| HER Number | MWB3832 |
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| Record Type | Monument |
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| Name | KINTBURY I |
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Summary
MESOLITHIC FLOOR: NO SURFACE INDICATIONS.
Other Statuses and Cross-References
- Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 01917.00.000
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
<1> Kintbury Sewage Works, Site I of FRF, found by D B Connah. Disturbed Mesolithic on Roman site.
During the construction of filter beds for a new sewage works at Kintbury in August 1949, three hearths containing wood ash were found <6>. In early 1950, a large number of worked flints were identified on the surface of the spoil heap and a rescue excavation of it recovered flint cores, scrapers, thousands of flint flakes, pot boilers and Romano-British material. The hearths were identified as having been associated with a Mesolithic period flint manufacturing floor, into which later Romano-British rubbish had intruded.
Sources and further reading
| <01> | 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. P7. [Monograph / SWB10038]
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-281-1/dissemination/pdf/cba_rr_020.pdf (Accessed 07/10/2015) |
| <02> | Oct 1950. BULLETIN BRIT ARCH ASSOC 1950 31. 31. P2. [Article in serial / SWB9373] |
| <03> | Nov 1951. BULLETIN BRIT ARCH ASSOC 1951 41. 41. [Article in serial / SWB9376] |
| <04> | Connah, D B. post 1952. A Romano-British Building and Rubbish Pits at Kintbury. [Unpublished document / SWB14308] |
| <05> | Archaeology Branch of Ordnance Survey & Newbury Museum staff. 1913 onwards. Newbury Museum Archaeology Map XLII NW.. 42NW. 6 inch. Annotated on map 'Mesolithic Floor, Flints'. [Map / SWB11439] |
| <06> | Connah, D B. pre 2019. Site Near the Sewage Works at Kintbury. WBC Network. [Unpublished document / SWB149659] |
Related Monuments
| MWB3868 | Kennet Valley mesolithic 'landscape' (Landscape) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
| EWB445 | Kintbury Romano-British Building (Bath House) |
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