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Recent Bronze Age Discoveries in Berkshire and Oxfordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

E. T. Leeds
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Material for a third report on the site of the Saxon village at Sutton Courtenay, Berks., has been gradually accumulating since the second was presented in 1926, but so slowly that it seemed advisable to wait until, as appeared likely to happen in the near future, the limits of the occupied area should have been reached. In the meantime, however, an important addition to our knowledge of the early Bronze Age has been obtained from Cassington, Oxfordshire, and since this presents several interesting points of comparison and contrast with the more recent discoveries of the same age at Sutton Courtenay, it has seemed preferable to anticipate the Third Report on the latter site by including the Sutton Courtenay material of Bronze Age date in a combined account. The numbering of the pits at Sutton Courtenay follows on those described in the Second Report in Archaeologia, lxxvi.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , July 1934 , pp. 264 - 276
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1934

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References

page 264 note 1 Archaeologia, lxxiii, lxxvi.

page 268 note 1 Even among the fragments of vessels with overhanging rims one (Archaeologia, lxxxiii, pi. XXII, fig. 2, top right) has always impressed me by the difference of its fabric from the other Bronze Age material (e.g. loc. cit., fig. 2, top left, and also that immediately below on the right), and even its decoration is far more reminiscent of the earlier than of the later age. The vessel with overhanging rim is in itself essentially ‘native’; its forbears may be clearly seen in such forms as that supplied by sherds from Astrop, Northants (Oxfordshire Arch. Soc, Report for 1912, pl. opp. p. 116).

page 268 note 2 Ashmolean, 1931. 526.

page 268 note 3 Ibid., 1932. 43.

page 269 note 1 In the middle of the plan are shown the ditches of a ring-barrow, in the centre of which no burial could be detected. Roman sherds were found in the uppermost layers and flint scrapers at the bottom of the ditches.

page 271 note 1 Ashmolean Museum, 1933. 1619.

page 272 note 1 Ashmolean Museum, 1933. 1620.

page 272 note 2 Ibid., 1933. 1624.

page 273 note 1 Ibid., 1933. 1623.

page 273 note 2 Ibid., 1933. 1621. It compares rather closely in form and decoration with that from Brixworth, Northants (Northampton Museum, Abercromby, B.A.P., i, pl. xxi, 295).

page 273 note 3 Ashmolean Museum, 1933. 1622.