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Archaeological Trial Trenching Evaluation at Castleview Road, Slough, June 2012 |
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Northamptonshire Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Thirty-three trenches were excavated, each 30m long by 2m wide. Archaeological features were concentrated within two areas. To the north-east a circular ditched enclosure, 10m in diameter, with flanking spreads of dumped material, has been dated by the pottery to the Middle to Late Iron Age. The quantities of ferrous slag, hammerscale and crucibles recovered from the ditches and the spreads, indicate that the enclosure was a specialised metalworking area, with primary smithing being carried out and perhaps smelting, along with copper alloy casting. A nearby ditch may have flanked a droveway. To the north-west, a pit, perhaps part of a more extensive pit group, produced pottery dated to the Early or early Middle Iron Age, perhaps the 6th to 5th centuries BC. Another pit produced a sherd of Beaker pottery from the Early Bronze Age. |
Author: |
A Chapman
Christopher Jones
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Publisher: |
Northamptonshire Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Berkshire Archaeology HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2012
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Castleview Road |
Parish: |
SLOUGH |
District: |
Slough |
County: |
Berkshire |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 499400, 178600 (Easting, Northing)
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northamp3-160608 |
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12/112 |
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A4, blue spine, heat bonded, clear covers
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Created Date: |
25 Nov 2016 |