Excavation at Thames Valley Park, Reading, 1986-88

Mesolithic flint scatters, a butchered semi-articulated Bos skeleton, sporadic Neolithic activity and a Beaker burial associated with 18 barb-and-tanged arrowheads were found on a terrace of the River Thames on the outskirts of Reading. An enclosure of Iron Age to Roman date on the floodplain produced a variety of settlement features and associated artefacts. A plaeoenvironmental sequence from a former stream channel produced detailed evidence from the late Devensian to modern times.