Find Spot record 0498200000 - FIELD W OF DINTON CASTLE

Summary

Scatter of Mesolithic, Neolithic to Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post-medieval artefacts found in field-walking survey

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • ARTEFACT SCATTER (Early Mesolithic to Post-Medieval - 10000 BC to 1798 AD)

Description

DURING SYSTEMATIC FIELD WALKING VARIOUS FINDS MADE (00:001-9) WHICH SUGGESTS A DISPERSED MULTI-PERIOD SPREAD, EXCEPT THAT STRIP 11 MAY REPRESENT A LATE NEOLITHIC/EARLY BRONZE AGE SITE. FIELD WAS DIVIDED INTO 14 STRIPS (SEE MAP FILED). FIELDWALKING BY CMAG 8 MARCH 1981 (B1).

Thirteen Mesolithic blades, a polished Neolithic axe fragment and a transverse arrowhead, 104 flakes, 5 scrapers of Mesolithic-Bronze Age date, and a barbed-and-tanged arrowhead were found during fieldwalking centred on SP76381169 (B3).

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC2186 Unpublished document: 1981. BULL MR E J,CAUVAIN MR & MRS S,HURMAN MRS B M(CMAG ) & FARLEY M E, MARCH 1981.
  • <2>SBC6517 Unpublished document: Andrew Hunn, Jo Lawson & Mike Farley. 1992. 'THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT DINTON, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE' (REPORT IN PREPARATION;TYPESCRIPT FILED).
  • <3>SBC29546 Article in serial: Michael Farley. 1981. 'Archaeological Notes from Buckinghamshire County Museum', in Records of Buckinghamshire 23 pp120-124. Vol 23. p121.
  • <4>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). insert 1998.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 7621 1177 (540m by 490m)
Civil Parish DINTON-WITH-FORD AND UPTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (10)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Fieldwalking survey (EBC10509)

Record last edited

Jul 21 2026 3:03PM

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