Monument record 0034303000 - DODDERSHALL DMV

IN C15 24 MESSUAGES & 24 VIRGATES OF LAND, EACH OF 40 ACRES, HAD SUPPORTED 120 PERSONS & 16 PLOUGHS, BUT HAD BEEN TURNED TO PASTURE & THE INHABITANTS GONE AWAY (B4,B15).
TUDOR MAP SHOWS COTTAGES NEAR HOUSE (B5).
APS SHOW HOUSE PLATFORMS, HOLLOW WAYS ETC (B8).
NO SURVEYABLE EARTHWORKS (B6).
Documentary research, description of earthworks and impact of proposed HS2 rail line assessed by Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society. See report for detail (B12).
Deserted settlement consisting of possible toft and croft boundaries, hollow ways and house platforms all visible as earthworks on 2012 LiDAR. Picture greatly confused by possible later drainage channels. (B16).
HS2 test pitting survey idenified features relating to the DMV. Features included cobbled floor surfaces, build up layers, and deposits of hearth material (B17).

An extensive and sprawling medieval deserted 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 in fields S, W and N of Doddershall House and centred at SP 71882 20249, a complex of interconnected boundary ditches or trackways, platforms, boundary banks, hollows, ponds and terraced ground extends about 1,700 metres WSW-ENE. The boundary ditch system appears to represent a planned settlement, linear ditches bounding a myriad of contiguous rectilinear enclosures. The orientation of the earthworks changes: in the SW the enclosures are aligned WSW-ENE/NNW-SSE, changing to N-S/W-E in the centre and then in the NE to SW-NE/SE-NW (18-23).