Evaluation and subsequent excavation by R Taylor-Wilson of PCA, for Crest Homes, of this redevelopment site adjacent to the Thames. Struck flints recovered indicate Later Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement in the near vicinity, with some indication of Later Mesolithic or Early Neolithic activity as well. The site was most extensively occupied in the Later Iron Age, when a settlement, probably a small farmstead, was established, the main focus of which was outside the excavated area. The main features excavated were a series of enclosure ditches and numerous pits and postholes. Part of what has been interpreted as the eaves-drip gulley of a Later Iron Age roundhouse was also recorded. Occupation continued into the Roman period, although the focus of the settlement appears to have shifted progressively further from this site. A few features of probably Saxon date were also revealed. Subsequently the site appears to have been used for agriculture and little else until the post-medieval period. (315)