Monument record 0528000000 - COLLEGE FARM

Plan Form - Square.
Possible square enclosure & other amorphous features visible as cropmarks on AP. Siting adjacent to quarry so is feasible that the cropmarks relate to this (B1).
Possible enclosure & ridge & furrow (2 phases) plotted at 1:2500 (radial line method) (B2).
Evaluation trial trenching by Cotswold Archaeology in 2016 failed to identify any archaeological features in the area of the cropmarks. Report suggests that the cropmarks are geological in origin, however Roman pits and ditches were identified in Trench 10 approx 80m to the south. See report for detail (B3).

Linear features, enclosures and maculae of uncertain date are visible on historic aerial photographs as cropmarks and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located approximately 250m north of Lockmeadow Farm, Maids Moreton, and centred at SP 70852 34603. The cropmarks are of linear fetures which could form subrectangular and subcircular enclosures on a wide ridge along the course of the River Great Ouse, of Glaciofluvial sands and gravels and Till Diamicton overlying White Limestone. The most complete circular enclosure is 41m in diameter and the other, only partially visible, looks to be of similar size. There are small subcircular maculae, approximately 3m across, to the east of these cropmarks. Only the westernmost cropmarks are visible in 1972 due to land use, and those to the east are only visible in 2002 and afterwards. (5-7).



SP 708346 Cropmark of an undated square enclosure photographed from the air by the NMR in 1972 (B8).
A rapid examination of air photography (b10) shows this site on three NMR air photographs on none of which is it of a clearly archaeological nature (B9).
Aerial photographs taken July 4th 2002 show the site under less than ideal conditions, but the enclosure appears to be more rounded than square, and appears to abut a linear feature which runs ne-sw, apparently forming the enclosure's SE-facing side. There may be another similar enclosure immediately to the SW, but the state of the crop makes it impossible to be certain. (B6 - NRHE).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.