A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE 



TOPOGRAPHICAL LIST OF PREHISTORIC ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED IN 



BERKSHIRE 



The following list shows the various prehistoric remains found in 

 Berkshire, and gives references to books where records of the same may 

 be found. 



ABINGDON. Bronze dagger found in the Thames. Late Celtic pottery in the Ashmolean 



Museum, Oxford [Arch. lii. 354]. Coin of Cunobelinus [Evans, Coins, 329], 

 APPLEFORD. Drinking cup (British Museum). 



ASHBURY (near Uffington). Dolmen called ' Wayland Smith's cave.' 

 ASHDOWN. Bronze spear-head [Evans, Bronze Imp. 322]. 

 BEEDON. In barrow, incense cup (British Museum) [Arch. Journ. vii. 65]. 

 BEENHAM. Bronze palstave, in Reading Museum. 

 BISHAM. Bronze axe, now in the British Museum. 

 BLEWBURY. Bronze knife-blade with two rivet-holes in the Ashmolean Museum [Arch. 



Journ. 282]. 



BOURNE END. Hilt of bronze dagger dredged from the Thames. 

 BRADFIELD. Two palaeolithic implements (Reading Museum). 

 BRAY. Two neolithic celts of basalt and one of flint from the Thames (Canon Greenwell's 



Coll.). Bronze sickle found in the Thames [Evans, Bronze Imp. 199]. 

 BRIGHTWELL. Ancient British coin of Cunobelinus [Evans, Coins, 560]. 

 BURGHFIELD. Neolithic flint implement, adze form (Reading Museum). 

 CHILDREY. Triangular chipped flint arrow-head ij inch long, and urn found in barrow 



[Arch. lii. 63 ; Evans, Stone Imp. 391]. 

 CHILTON, HAGBOURNE HILL. Important hoard of Bronze Age and Late Celtic objects [Arch. 



xvi. 384-9]. 

 CHOLSEY. River-drift implement [Evans, Stone Imp. 593]. Two bronze celts, now in Reading 



Museum. Early Bronze Age drinking cup of pale brown ware, 6 in. high, with spreading 



lip : ornamented with quadruple bands of impressed dots and one band of lattice pattern 



on the neck, and short dotted horizontal lines on the body (British Museum, 1893). 

 CHURN. In barrows, urn, small vessels of pottery, arrow-head [Arch. Journ. v. 279]. 

 COOKHAM. Late Celtic bronze dagger-sheath and spear-head. Twenty bronze spear-heads, 



bronze sword, etc. [Mr. L. Treacher and Reading Museum]. Palaeolithic flint implements. 



Two neolithic flint knives in Reading Museum. 

 COOKHAM DEAN. Neolithic flint knife. Iron spear-head. 

 COTHILL. See MARCHAM. 



CROOKHAM. Two neolithic celts [Trans. Nezvbury Dist. Field Club, i. 205]. 

 DRAYTON. A food vessel. 



ENGLEFIELD. Palaeolithic implement. Neolithic flint chisel (Reading Museum). 

 FYFIELD. Bronze spear-head, 6J inches long [Evans, Bronze Imp. 322]. 

 HAMPSTEAD NORRIS. Flint celt at Eling Farm. Bronze knife [Trans. Newbury Dist. Field 



Club, iv. 184]. Uninscribed gold British coin in Reading Museum [Evans, Coins, 66]. 

 HENLEY. Bronze sword (see p. 181). Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. (1882), 275. 

 LAMBOURN. Perforated axe-head, hammer-head of deer's horn, incense cup, small vessel, 



bone pin, and a bronze knife [Arch. lii. 60]. Arrow-heads, scrapers, celt and dagger of 



STONE AXE FROM LAMBOURN. f HAMMER-HEAD OF DEER'S HORN FROM LAMBOURN. f 



flint, a bracer, a button, found in sepulchral barrows [Evans, Stone Imp. 186, 318, 349, 

 384, 399, 434, 455]. Three urns, two elaborately ornamented drinking cups, incense 



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