Monument record 0408901000 - E,SE &S OF LOWER FARM,UPTON Shrunken Village

Domesday Upton divided into 2 parts: Nether Upton & Upper Upton (B1).
Possible village earthworks visible on aerial photo (B3).
Field visit: area of shrinkage to E of Lower Farm defined by hollow way. Hollow way running S of farm has house platforms on NW, disturbed ground N of moated site (CASS 02288)(B4).
Aerial photographs taken in 1996 revealed additional earthworks (B13).

A medieval shrunken settlement is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located across closes east of Pasture Farmhouse and Wallace Farm and centred at SP 77251 11082, the earthworks comprise a complex of sinuous interconnecting ditches up to 14 metres wide, these being either boundary ditches, trackways or hollow ways. Abutting these are a number of rectilinear earthwork platforms of various sizes, from 64 x 32 metres to 7 x 9 metres. Also visible are a number of probable linear and subcircular fishponds. In the west part of the settlement are linear and L shaped narrow earthworks banks, suggesting the possible subsurface foundation walls of former buildings, as well as more amorphous mounds and hollows (14-16).