Under the Oracle (Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph, #36)

by Ben M. Ford, Daniel Poore, Ruth Shaffrey, and David R. P. Wilkinson

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Excavations carried out by Oxford Archaeology in advance of the building of the Oracle shopping centre revealed a long sequence of development of the Kennet floodplain at Reading. This volume reports on the substantial evidence recovered for medieval and post-medieval water management, milling at the Minster Mill and St Giles Mill, the tanning, leather working and dyeing industries, and an unusual building interpreted as the 12th- to 13th-century cookhouse of Reading Abbey. The stories of two well-known Reading sites, the Oracle Workhouse and the Yield Hall, are followed from the medieval period up to the 19th century. Substantial specialist...Read more
  • ISBN10 1905905270
  • ISBN13 9781905905270
  • Publish Date 1 April 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University School of Archaeology
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 340
  • Language English