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High-Level Finds in the Upper Thames Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

Reginald A. Smith
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The implements which Mr. G. W. Smith has been good enough to exhibit at my suggestion are a selection from no less than one hundred and seventy in his collection from a small and shallow pit on high ground overlooking the Thames, near Tilehurst Station, 3 miles north-west of the centre of Reading. It is perhaps unfamiliar ground to members of this Society, but has been well studied in the past, and the following list, together with other papers quoted in the text, will put the reader in possession of the principal facts at present ascertained as to the geology and flint-finds of the neighbourhood:—

Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., LIV., 600 (sketch-map of the high gravels near Reading, Tilehurst and Goring Heath being marked alike).

Q.J.G.S., XLIX., 311, from which the accompanying section of the Thames Valley is derived (Fig. 8).

Q.J.G.S., XLVIII., 40, where the Tilehurst plateau-gravel is described as glacial.

Proc. Geol. Assoc., XV., 157 and 308.

Proc. Geol. Assoc., VIII., 348 (heights given, above the river and Ordnance datum, of flint-finds).

Berks, Bucks, and Oxon Archæological Journal, II., 16 (Treacher).

Trans. Berks Archæol. and Archit. Soc., 1881–2 (Stevens).

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , 1915 , pp. 99 - 107
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1915

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References

page 101 note * Shrubsole, Mr. adds Equus, Bos, and Rhinoceros tichorhinus (Journ. Anthrop. Inst., XIV., 195)Google Scholar.

page 101 note † Now in Reading Museum: Q.J.G.S., LVIII. (1902). Proc., p. 82Google Scholar.

page 101 note ‡ Reading Memoir, p. 65; Q.J.G.S, XLVI., 583Google Scholar; Proc. Geol. Assoc., IX., 209Google Scholar; XIV., 19; XX., 206. The corresponding deposit south of the river would be at Christ Church, Southern Hill, Reading (Memoir, p. 72), where “plateau gravel” has produced a number of palæoliths.

page 101 note § Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc., XXXVII., 4Google Scholar; cf. Journ. Anthrop. Inst., XIV., 193 (O. A., Shrubsole)Google Scholar; Q.J.G.S., XL., 586Google Scholar; and Proc Geol. Assoc., XVII., 382,Google Scholar VIII., 347.

page 102 note * See also Proc. Geol. Assoc., XV., 306Google Scholar, where the base of the gravel is stated to be 65 ft. above the Thames.

page 102 note † Archæologia, LXIV., 177Google Scholar; LXV., 187; Proc. Geol. Assoc., XXV., 92, 94Google Scholar.

page 102 note ‡ Proc. Geol. Assoc., XXIV., 188Google Scholar. He correlates his terraces A and B with the 100 ft. terrace of the Thames.

page 107 note * Described as plateau-gravel (400–500 ft. O.D.) in the Reading Geol. Memoir, 64.

page 107 note † Proc. Geol. Assoc., XXVI. (1915), 12Google Scholar; XXIV., 189. Cf. also Shrubsole's, Mr. finds, Quart. Journ, Geol. Soc., XLIX., 321Google Scholar.