Opening the Wood, Making the Land: The Archaeology of a Middle Thames Landscape Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. the Eton College Rowing Co

by Anne Marie Cromarty, Tim Allen, Alistair Barclay

Excavations at the Eton Rowing Course and along the Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton Flood Alleviation Channel revealed extensive evidence for occupation in an evolving landscape of floodplains and gravel terraces set amidst the shifting channels of the Thames.
The most significant evidence was a series of early Neolithic midden deposits, preserved in hollows left by infilled palaeochannels. These deposits contained dense concentrations of pottery,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905905319
• ISBN13: 9781905905317
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford Archaeological Unit
• Length: 600 Pages