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Archaeological Recording and Monitoring: Woodspeen Mill, Speen, near Newbury, W Berkshire |
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Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
In August and September 2007 a programme of archaeological recording was undertaken at the site of Woodspeen Mill, Speen, near Newbury, on a river sluice prior to its destruction during river improvement works. The sluice appears to have been part of the water management system of the mill, for controlling the head of water on the river Lambourn to provide power to the mill, and had been much altered since the closure of the mill. Background historical research failed to reveal much information on the mill itself, which appears to have been a paper mill, in operation by the 1760s and closed and at least partly demolished by the 1880s. A watching brief on excavations alongside the existing sluice revealed a number of brick walls, probably part of the demolished mill structure, and a vaulted brick culvert, probably for the outflow from an undershot water wheel, parallel to the sluice. |
Author: |
Robert J Zeepvat
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Publisher: |
Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
West Berkshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2007
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Site: |
Woodspeen Mill |
Parish: |
SPEEN |
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West Berkshire |
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Berkshire |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 444500, 169400 (Easting, Northing)
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archaeol2-43808 |
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ASC/900/WWM/2 |
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Bound A4 report
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Created Date: |
24 Nov 2016 |