Monument record 0562503000 - FIELD E OF COLD HARBOUR FARM

Summary

Iron Age ditches and pit, a Roman hearth and prehistoric and Roman artefacts found in trial trenching

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (3)

  • DITCH (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD)
  • PIT (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD)
  • HEARTH (1st Century Roman - 43 AD? to 99 AD?)

Description

EVALUATION EXCAVATION IN DITCHINGHAM FIELD RECOVERED MORE SAXON POTTERY BUT NO SETTLEMENT EVIDENCE. DITCHES, PITS ETC INDICATED AN EARLY-MID IRON AGE SETTLEMENT: C.230 IA SHERDS FOUND MAINLY IN NE QUARTER OF FIELD. OTHER FINDS INC A RB CU ALLOY APPLIQUE & TRACES OF A HEARTH & C1 AD POTTERY (B2).

Sources (1)

  • <2>SBC14897 Article in serial: Stewart I J. 1990. COLDHARBOUR FARM AYLESBURY, AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 8042 1353 (450m by 600m)
Civil Parish AYLESBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (7)

  • VESSEL (Middle Iron Age - 400 BC to 101 BC)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (2nd Century - 100 AD to 199 AD)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LOOMWEIGHT (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
  • VESSEL (1st Century Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
  • VESSEL (Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: Trial trenching (EBC11574)

Record last edited

Mar 15 2022 12:45PM

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