Monument record 0402502000 - LAMPORT shrunken village: hollow way

Summary

Medieval hollow-way recorded on aerial photographs and in earthwork survey

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  • SHINE: Stowe medieval to post medieval landscape garden, medieval deserted villages of Lamport & Boycott, shrunken village of Daford, also moats, manors and fishponds, ridge and furrow earthworks & cropmarks, and areas of ancient semi natural woodland

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOLLOW WAY (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
  • TRACKWAY (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)

Description

Plan Form - LINEAR
CURVED HOLLOW WAY RUNS ACROSS SITE FROM NEAR THE LODGE TO SE CORNER. (HOUSE PLATFORMS TO E & W OF THIS) (B5).
NGR TO CENTRE OF SETTLEMENT TRACES (B4).
Earthwork survey and research by English Heritage and University of Leicester for the Whittlewood Project suggests that Lamport may have developed in the late Saxon period as a small market centre along a major route (B14).

Sources (7)

  • ---SBC17368 Aerial Photograph: 13/08/90. BCM A14/15/26-27. SP\682374. Yes.
  • ---SBC20005 Aerial Photograph: RAF 541 Squadron. 1946. RAF vertical AP Run 20, frame 4184. SP68373740. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC20007 Aerial Photograph: JAS AIR. 1988. RUN 456: 1488057. SP68003667. Yes. Yes.
  • <4>SBC2993 Verbal communication: George Clarke. 1977. CLARKE G, PERS COMM, APRIL 1977.
  • <5>SBC522 Verbal communication: Andrew Pike (BCM). 1977. PIKE A R (BCM), PERS COMM FOLLOWING FIELD VISIT, 8TH SEPT 1977.
  • <13>SBC22774 Bibliographic reference: Richard Jones and Mark Page. 2006. Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends. Fig 59, p164.
  • <14>SBC24749 Unpublished document: Graham Brown. Undated. Earthwork survey at Lamport.

Location

Grid reference SP 68400 37400 (point)
Civil Parish STOWE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (3)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC14100)
  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC17560)
  • Event - Survey: Topographic earthwork survey (EBC17167)

Record last edited

Nov 27 2023 7:54PM

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