Monument record 0460400000 - C500M NE HADDENHAM CHURCH

2 FIELDS L-SHAPED IN PLAN DIVIDED INTO 28 STRIPS (SEE MAP FILED). W FIELD (CENTRED SP7441 0820) HAD GOOD WALKING/SEARCH CONDITIONS. NE FIELD (CENTRED SP7457 0846) RECENTLY HARROWED, WOULD REPAY REWALKING. SUBSTANTIAL HEADLAND RAN SW-NE ACROSS FIELD. FINDS MADE DURING SYSTEMATIC FIELDWALKING (B1).
A potential late Bronze Age ditch was identified during earlier evaluation. This continued across Areas A2 and A3 and beyond the northern and southern boundaries of these areas. Fragments of flint tempered pottery was recoverd from this feature. Apit and posthole were also identified within Area B. Iron Age pits and boundary ditches were identified across both areas. A single pit, excavated during the evalaution, remained the only feature dating from the 5th to 7th centuries. Later medieval and early post-medieval features comprised a ditch and terminus containing pottery from the 13th to 15th-centuries. A series of parallel linears all represented plough furrows (B2).
Occasional short linear positive magnetic anomalies have been detected in Areas 2 and 5. These anomalies could possibly reflect the soil‐filled remains of features such as ditches, though all but one are very weak and of limited extent, perhaps truncated by later ploughing. The longer anomaly in Area 5 is particularly straight and narrow and may reflect a pipe trench or other more recent feature, rather than an archaeological ditch.(B3).
Soil marks present in Trenches 10, 13 and 19, and recorded as anomalies by the geophysical survey, proved, upon investigation, to be variations in the natural geology (B4).