Monument record 0036302000 - CHETWODE (SE OF WELLS FARM)

Summary

Antiquarian excavation of a 'barrow', now thought to be a post-medieval windmill mound

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • (Former Type) ROUND BARROW? (Early Neolithic to 5th Century Roman - 4000 BC? to 409 AD?)

Description

Plan Form - CIRCULAR
MOUND, EXCAVATED IN THE BELIEF IT WAS A 'LARGE BARROW' IN 1896 (SHORTLY THEREAFTER DESTROYED BY RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION). DESCRIBED AS HAVING BEEN DITCHED, 90FT DIAMETER, 5FT 9INS HIGH. HAS SINCE BEEN REINTERPRETED AS A WINDMILL MOUND (B2).
NGR TO CENTRE OF FIELD IN WHICH IT STOOD (B1).

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC8151 Map: MAP IR/56 Q 1813 (COUNTY RECORD OFFICE). INFORMATI ON TRANSFERRED TO CAS 25IN MAP.
  • <2>SBC3072 Article in serial: Alfred Heneage Cocks. 1897. 'EXPLORATION OF A LARGE BARROW AT CHETWODE', IN RECS OF BUCKS 7 PP462-464. Vol 7.
  • <3>SBC548 Verbal communication: ARP 1980(JAN) PERS COMM; & BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER.
  • <4>SBC16262 Verbal communication: VENN JH 1986 (JULY) PERS COMM.

Location

Grid reference SP 63600 29600 (point)
Civil Parish CHETWODE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC11808)

Record last edited

Sep 21 2015 7:29PM

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