Monument record 0447200000 - C150M N OF ROUND HILL

PROB RING DITCH WITH 2 SMALL SQUARE ENCLOSURES ADJOINING/SUPERIMPOSED; ALSO OTHER POSSIBLE SQUARE/RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURES TO NE, VISIBLE AS CROPMARKS ON AP. PLOTTED AT 1:2500 (PAPER-STRIP METHOD)(B1).
1999 Aerial photographs show features with slightly better definition, particularly rectangular enclosure to NE.

Enclosures, boundaries and possible trackways of Iron Age/Romano-British date are visible on historic aerial photographs as extant cropmarks and were mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located at King’s Cross, Haddenham, and centred at SP 73834 10203. Overlapping cropmarks of enclosures, a ring ditch and linear and curvilinear features of a probable late prehistoric settlement site. Finds recorded across the field date from the Iron Age and Romano-British 2nd, 3rd and 4th century coins, metalwork and pottery. The subrectangular enclosures appear to be aligned along both sides of a trackway running approximately north east to south west and broadening towards the south western end. A ring ditch, measuring approximately 27m in diameter, can be seen at the south western end of the cropmarks. The enclosures are overlapping and ditches appear to have been renewed or recut throughout the site’s use. Only three sides of the easternmost enclosure are visible, and it measures approximately 38m across. On the south side of the trackway three sides of a further subrectangular enclosure, measuring 55m across, can be seen with internal maculae; parts of a further two enclosures can be seen on either side of the same but not enough is visible to measure. The north side of the trackway has multiple overlapping enclosures where it is more difficult to see which cropmarks belong with which enclosure making measurement and interpretation more difficult. The aerial photographs from the 1940s show either very denuded earthworks or only cropmark remains of ridge and furrow field systems with only the vaguest suggestion of other cropmarks being present and the same continues with images from the 1950s-70s. Crop conditions on Google Earth and APGB coverage since 2000 mean no cropmarks are showing. The settlement site is situated on a rise of land above a valley and the underlying solid geology is Kimmeridge Clay Formation Siltstone and Sandstone, Portland Stone Formation Limestone and Calcareous Sandstone, Portland Stone Formation Limestone and the soils are lime rich and free draining. (5-9)