T H A M E S V A L L E Y ARCHAEOLOGICAL S E R V I C E S

New Double Garage at Harpsden Wood House, Harpsden, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

Archaeological Watching Brief

by Luis Esteves

Site Code: HWH18/34

(SU 7568 8052)

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SU75000 76000 HWH 18/34 New Garages and entrance, Harpsden Wood House, Harpsden Wood, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 2018 Archaeological Watching Brief Figure 1. Location of site within Harpsden and Oxfordshire.

Reproduced under licence from Ordnance Survey Digital mapping at 1:12500 Crown Copyright reserved. SITE

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N New Garages and entrance, Harpsden Wood House, Harpsden Wood, Henley-on-Thames,Oxfordshire, 2018 Archaeological Watching Brief Figure 2. Detailed location of site.

Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping under licence. Crown copyright reserved. Scale 1:1250 Watching brief (Taylor 2017)

Earlier extension Garage N New Tennis Court Gate Garden Previous watching brief 80500 (Porter 2015)

Garage S Original house

Garden 2015 extension

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Pool house

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N New Garages and entrance, Harpsden Wood House, Harpsden Wood, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 2018 Archaeological Watching Brief

Figure 3. Location of observed area, and reference to 2015 and 2017 works.

0 50m Garage south

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Made ground

Convoluted clay with flints (natural geology)

Garage so New Garages and entrance, Harpsden Wood House, Harpsden Wood, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 2018 Archaeological Watching Brief

Figure 4. Representative section.

0 1m Plate 1. Garage (N), looking east, Scale: 1m.

Plate 2. Garage (S), looking north, Scale: 1m.

HWH 18/34 Harpsden Wood House, Harpsden Wood, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 2018 Archaeological Watching Brief Plates 1 and 2. TIME CHART

Calendar Years

Modern AD 1901

Victorian AD 1837

Post Medieval AD 1500

Medieval AD 1066

Saxon AD 410

Roman AD 43 AD 0 BC Iron Age 750 BC

Bronze Age: Late 1300 BC

Bronze Age: Middle 1700 BC

Bronze Age: Early 2100 BC

Neolithic: Late 3300 BC

Neolithic: Early 4300 BC

Mesolithic: Late 6000 BC

Mesolithic: Early 10000 BC

Palaeolithic: Upper 30000 BC

Palaeolithic: Middle 70000 BC

Palaeolithic: Lower 2,000,000 BC Thames Valley Archaeological Services Ltd, 47-49 De Beauvoir Road, Reading RG1 5NR

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