Monument record 0403900000 - SOUTHEND HILL, CHEDDINGTON

Summary

Iron Age hillfort recorded on aerial photographs and in field visit

Protected Status/Designation

  • Archaeological Notification Area: Cropmarks of Prehistoric hillfort and cursus and earthworks of Medieval cultivation terraces (DBC8615)
  • Scheduled Monument 1017517: A SMALL MULTIVALLATE HILLFORT ON SOUTHEND HILL (DBC7094)

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Type and Period (1)

  • HILLFORT (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Radius 110m.
Plan Form - Subcircular.
Double concentric ditches visible from the air, probably a univallate or bivallate hillfort. Runs into cultivation terraces (CAS 01272) on the south side of the hill (B1).
Cropmarks plotted at 1:2,500 (B2).
Proximity of Cheddington hillfort to Ivinghoe hillfort is interesting. Cheddington is larger: 5 hectares, compared to 2.1 hectares for Ivinghoe. Was one a replacement of the other? Ploughing has destroyed internal features. [See article for discussion] (B3).
Scheduled: SM 29410 (B4).
Included in English Heritage's Heritage at Risk Register 2009 and 2011. Condition desribed as 'Extensive significant problems ie under plough, collapse' with principal vulnerability from arable ploughing and trend as declining (B8-9).

Aerial photograph taken in July 2010 clearly shows the northern ploughed half of the hillfort as a cropmark with hints of an inner rectilinear enclosure (B10).
This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence (B11).

Sources (21)

  • ---SBC17225 Aerial Photograph: 01/08/77. BCM (COLOUR SLIDE). SP\919165. Yes.
  • ---SBC17427 Aerial Photograph: Mike Farley (BCM). 01/08/77. BCM A2/26/14-17. SP\919165. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17428 Aerial Photograph: 01/08/77. BCM A2/26/19. SP\915162. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17430 Aerial Photograph: 01/08/77. BCM A2/26/20-22. SP\919165. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17553 Aerial Photograph: Mike Farley (BCM). 1982. BCM A6/16/13-15. SP\919165. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17640 Aerial Photograph: 03/07/73. CUC. SP\919165.
  • ---SBC17787 Aerial Photograph: 18/07/75. CUC BUP 63. SP\919165. Yes.
  • ---SBC19509 Aerial Photograph: Michael Farley. 1999. Oblique APS of Cheddington hillfort &c. SP91961656. Yes.
  • ---SBC21794 Aerial Photograph: Michael Farley. 1999. 1999 oblique AP by Mike Farley. SP91951655. Yes.
  • ---SBC29509 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2010. Historic England oblique aerial photo NMR 26692_024. No.
  • <1>SBC4956 Verbal communication: Mike Farley (BCM). 1977. FARLEY M E AUG 1977.
  • <2>SBC12331 Graphic material: Denise Allen (BCM). 1979. CROPMARK PLOT (PAPER-STRIP METHOD).
  • <3>SBC4759 Article in serial: Mike Farley (BCM). 1983. 'CHEDDINGTON HILLFORT', IN RECS OF BUCKS 25 P179 & PLATE XII. Vol 25.
  • <4>SBC14012 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1997. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS.
  • <5>SBC16498 Unpublished document: Davdi Went (EH) & Mike Farley (BCM). 1997. WENT D (MPP FIELDWORKER) & FARLEY M E (BCM) MAY 1997 (NOTES, FILED).
  • <6>SBC19513 Graphic material: Went DA. Cheddington hillfort.
  • <7>SBC22751 Verbal communication: Michael Farley. 1999. Mike Farley to Julia Wise (BCC) pers comm July 1999.
  • <8>SBC23453 Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2009. Heritage at Risk Register 2009: South East. p29.
  • <9>SBC24032 Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2011. Heritage at Risk Register 2011: South East. p23.
  • <10>SBC28506 Verbal communication: Fiona Small (Historic England Air Photo Interpreter). 2015. Information from 2010 Historic England aerial photograph.
  • <11>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 9195 1652 (270m by 280m) (2 map features)
Civil Parish CHEDDINGTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (6)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC1454)
  • Event - Survey: Aerial photography (EBC1093)
  • Event - Survey: Aerial photography (EBC11177)
  • Event - Survey: Aerial photography (EBC11913)
  • Event - Survey: Aerial photography (EBC15982)
  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC15983)

Record last edited

May 21 2026 11:36AM

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