TVAS Reading: Excavations at Caversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire
TVAS Reading: Excavations at Caversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire
During archaeological work, carried out before the area is quarried, a significant Roman landscape was uncovered.
This excavation has revealed multiple graves, a building, and two wells. The first of these is well [345] with a simple wooden stake and stonework construction.
The Timbers with the stonework still present.
The lower timbers exposed after recording.
The second of the wells had wooden latticework and worked timbers that may have been part of a wooden construction that fell in once the well was abandoned.
The worked timbers inthe well.
The wooden latticework uncovered in the well.
The burials that were uncovered were inhumations with the remains being fragile and in several cases partial.
Inhumation burial of Skeleton 279.