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Excavations in Broad Street, Reading - Excavations of Medieval and Early Post-Medieval features at 90-93 Broad St, Reading & The Excavation of Medieval Pits and a Probable 16th- to 17th-Century Tavern or Inn (Paperback)
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Excavations in Broad Street, Reading - Excavations of Medieval and Early Post-Medieval features at 90-93 Broad St, Reading & The Excavation of Medieval Pits and a Probable 16th- to 17th-Century Tavern or Inn (Paperback)
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Excavations at 7-8 Broad Street, revealed part of a possible 16th-
to 17th-century tavern or inn, situated behind the street frontage.
Discoveries included a stone built cess pit and a cellar, built in
the 16th century and demolished in the 17th century. A large
collection of pottery associated with the serving and consumption
of drink, fine Venetian-style glassware and a few early clay pipes
were recovered from these features. Limited evidence of medieval
occupation, in the form of rubbish pits, was also found, but much
of the site had been disturbed by the construction of the Corn
Exchange in the 19th century. Excavations in 2002 at 90-93 revealed
a ditch and evidence for cultivation possibly within the grounds of
the Saxon Minster; a small assemblage of early to mid Saxon pottery
was recovered from later deposits. Medieval gravel pits, cess pits
and a bell mould pit were founded in the back yards of tenements
fronting Broad St and Chain St, immediately to the north of St
Mary's Churchyard. It is likely that the bell mould pit was for the
casting of a 13th-century bell for St Mary's. The pits contained
exceptional assemblages of bird, fish and animal bone, suggestive
of primary butchery and skinning in the vicinity, as well as the
presence of a high status household. There were also notable
assemblages of 11th- to 13th-century pottery and 16th- to
17th-century glass.
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