Under the Oracle
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Poore, Daniel / Shaffrey, Ruth / Wilkinson, David R. P.
- ISBN: 978-1-905905-27-0
- EAN: 9781905905270
- Produktnummer: 14868055
- Verlag: Oxford University School of Archaeology
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Masse: H30.5 cm x B21.0 cm x D2.4 cm 1'568 g
- Gewicht: 1568
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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