Early Bronze Age
Early Bronze Age Barrows
There is a group of barrows around Northfield Farm, not right next to the river, and a spread of others across the gravel terraces, which suggests more extensive clearance of woodland, and the establishment of open expanses of grassland within which the barrows were placed.
Excavations
Two were excavated in the 19th century, one producing a female burial and struck flints, and one in 1970 (Gray 1978) that produced very little.
Findings around Northfield Farm
Two barbed-and-tanged arrowheads have been found at Northfield Farm, and recent fieldwalking has produced a flint knife and a fragment of human skull from another to the west. A barbed-and-tanged arrowhead, other flints and utilised pebbles have been found north of Little Wittenham on the gravel terrace edge, probably from a settlement site.
Beaker pottery and some struck flint has been found below Round Hill (Reading Museum), and a few sherds of Early Bronze Age pottery on Castle Hill.
