Monument record 0434600000 - HAMBLEDEN STUD FARM

Summary

Possible Neolithic or Bronze Age ring-ditch recorded on aerial photograph, now thought to be tractor marks.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Archaeological Notification Area: Cropmark of Prehistoric ring ditch (DBC9267)

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Type and Period (2)

  • (Former Type) RING DITCH (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • NON ANTIQUITY (Modern - 1901 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Radius 13m.
Plan Form - Circular.
Large single ring ditch visible on AP, at NGR. Plotted at 1:2500 (NMR method)(B1-2).
A circular cropmark produced by a tractor was observed at this location when the area was mapped from air photographs by RCHME's Thames Valley NMP project (B3-4).

Sources (5)

  • ---SBC29551 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1969. Historic England oblique aerial photos NMR 130_174-175 (SU7789/1/174-175). SU7789.
  • <1>SBC124 Graphic material: Denise Allen (BCM). 1979. AP PLOT.
  • <2>SBC29201 Article in serial: M Farley. 1978. 'Archaeological Notes from the Buckinghamshire County Museum', in Records of Buckinghamshire Vol 20, part 4, pages 656-665, 1978. p658.
  • <3>SBC13178 Unpublished document: RCHM(E). 1995. The Thames Valley Project: a Report for the National Mapping Programme.
  • <4>SBC27492 Verbal communication: Cathy Stoertz. 1993. RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment.

Location

Grid reference SU 77758 89884 (point)
Civil Parish HAMBLEDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC1191)

Record last edited

Jun 17 2026 5:19PM

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