Reading Business Park: A Bronze Age Landscape

The prime interest of this rescue excavation on a Kennet Valley development site on the outskirts of Reading is the Late Bronze Age settlement evidence: semi-circular segmented buildings, four and six post structures, two post supports; paired houses in lines, open space, activity and storage areas; flax retting pits flanking a trackway; associated field systems. Discussion ties these finds into other local discoveries. Earlier Neolithic evidence suggest some resource-specific rather than domestic activity, whilst enclosures and linear boundaries were found from the Romano-British period.