Excavations at the Maglemosian Sites at Thatcham, Berkshire, England

Abstract

The area examined is in the parish of Newbury, Berkshire, nearly a mile from the village of Thatcham, South of Lower Way on the Sewage Outfall Works of Newbury Corporation. The Mesolithic settlement extended along the bluff of the 8-foot gravel terrace, immediately North of the Moor Brook and the railway (SU 502668 to SU 504667).Thatcham is only one of several sites known in the Kennet Valley to have produced a Maglemosian flint industry.