EARLY MAN
EARLY MAN cup, two bronze knives, iron pyrites, flint flakes, in British Museum. Numerous urns found in one barrow. LETCOMBE BASSETT. Barrows of the Bronze Age ; arrow-head of flint. LETCOMBE REGIS. Ancient British coin of silver, uninscribed [Evans, Coins, 104]. MAIDENHEAD. River-drift implements, and neolithic stone pick JDvans, Stone Imp. 591, 174]. Rapier dagger-blade of bronze found in the Thames [Evans, Bronze Imp. 245]. Bronze palstave and dagger dredged from the Thames. Bronze Age urn, now in the Reading Museum. Uninscribed British gold coins [Evans, Coins, 65, 67]. MARHCAM. Bronze knife, or razor, found at Cothill in this parish [Evans, Bronze Imp. 215]. MORTIMER. Bronze spear-head and urn, also neolithic flint implement of unusual type, in Reading Museum. MOULSFORD. Bronze spear-head, in Reading Museum (barbed type). NEWBURY. Palaeolithic and neolithic implements. Two bronze palstaves of early form, one 6f inches long [Evans, Bronze Imp. 77, 81]. Bronze tanged dagger of interesting form jfourn. Brit. Arch. Ass. xvi. 322. In Canon Greenwell's collection]. Slider or belt- fastener of jet [Ibid., also Evans, Bronze, Imp. 308]. Two bronze axe-heads, now in Newbury Museum. Coin of Cunobelinus [Evans, Coins, 304]. PADWORTH. Drinking cup of the Bronze Age, now in Reading Museum. PAMBER FOREST. Palstave, neolithic celt (Reading Museum).^ PLTSEY. Ground neolithic celt, sJ inches long, with faceted edge, found at Cherbury Camp [Evans, Stone Imp. in]. READING. Palaeolithic implements found at Grovelands, Redlands, Sonning Hill, Southern Hill [Evans, Stone Imp. 591-2]. Various neolithic implements. Bronze sword, dagger, two spear-heads, sickle, and flanged celt. Two food-vessels. Iron spear-head. Un- inscribed bronze coin (all in Reading Museum). Palstave found in the Thames [British Museum]. Bronze sword from the Thames [Canon Greenwell's collection]. Socketed bronze dagger from the Thames. RUNNYMEDE (near). Looped spear-head i6J inches long, without point Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. (1860), 322]. RUSCOMBE. River-drift implements [Evans, Stone Imp. 591]- Small urn of the Bronze Age, now in Reading Museum. Uninscribed gold coins [Evans, Coins, 65]. SHEFFORD, GREAT. Bronze Age sepulchral barrow [Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Cl. i. 130-1]. An- cient British uninscribed coin [Evans, Coins, 65, 67]. Six flint arrow-heads, incense cup, food- INCENSE CUP FROM GREAT SHEFFORD. vessel, etc. (British Museum). SPEEN. Bronze spear-head, 7 inches long ; spear-head, 9 inches long, with two holes at base of leaf ; heavy spear-head barbed at base, loj inches long [Evans, Bronze Imp. 330, 333, 337, and Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. xvi. 322]. Bronze celt, and a canoe of doubtful date found at Bagnor [Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, iv. 205]. STANCOMBE. See Lambourn. STRATFIELD SAYE. Polished flint celt (Reading Museum). STREATLEY. Two urns of the Bronze Age found in the Thames. SULHAMSTEAD ABBOTS. Palaeolithic implement. SUNNINGDALE. Barrows of the Bronze Age containing numerous urns (Reading Museum, etc.). SUNNINGHILL. Perforated hammer of quartzite [Evans, Stone Imp. 229]. SUNNINGWELL. Bronze palstave [Evans, Bronze Imp. 80]. SUTTON COURTENAY. Neolithic arrow-heads of flint [Evans, Stone Imp. 389]. Bronze knife- blade [Evans, Bronze Imp. 223]. TAPLOW. Bronze spear-heads and swords, and bronze spear-head of special type, in British Museum. THATCHAM. Roughly chipped neolithic celt found in peat [Evans, Stone Imp. 78]. Bronze rapier-shaped blade found in the river Kennet near Thatcham [Evans, Bronze Imp. 247]. Polished flint-celt. THEALE. Drinking cup of the Bronze Age with dotted ornamentation (Reading Museum). TILEHURST. Bronze dagger dredged from the river Thames. 195
