The
Bronze Age
Barrow

dorneylake/archaeology
 

During Dorney Lake's construction Oxford Archaeology, a professional body, was given access for a period of 18 months. Their excavations yielded an amazing wealth of archaeological material. They found one of the most complete rural landscape histories in Britain, dating from the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago. The nearby River Thames changed its course several times and has left behind a type of soil ideal for preservation of many artifacts...

Find out more online at www.dorneylake.co.uk/archaeology.html

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