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Archaeological Finds in the Kennet Gravels near Newbury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Harold Peake
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So many discoveries have been made in the gravels of this region during the last few years, following upon a number which have been noted previously, that it seems advisable to treat them as forming a single body of evidence, which goes far to trace the evolution of the valley in Pleistocene and subsequent times.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1922 , pp. 125 - 130
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1922

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page 129 note 1 A full account of these excavations will appear in a forthcoming number of Proc. Prehist. Soc. East Anglia.