Monument record 0044501000 - BURN HILL

Summary

Two burials found in badger digging in the nineteenth century, thought to date to either the Early Iron Age or Saxon periods

Protected Status/Designation

  • SHINE: Natural mound at Burn Hill, used for burials in the late Prehistoric period

Map

Type and Period (2)

  • INHUMATION (Early Iron Age - 700 BC? to 401 BC?)
  • INHUMATION (Saxon - 410 AD? to 1065 AD?)

Description

2 SKELETONS DISCOVERED WHILE BADGER DIGGING FOLLOWED BY EXTENSIVE EXCAVATIONS WHICH ESTABLISHED THAT ONE WAS CONTRACTED & OTHER EXTENDED WITH BODY ORIENTATED WITH FEET ENE. NO FURTHER SKELETONS (B2).
SKELETONS ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY IRON AGE OR SAXON PERIOD (B6 ).

Sources (7)

  • ---SBC17344 Aerial Photograph: 15/07/86. BCM A11/3/25. SP\778132. Yes.
  • <1>SBC10 Bibliographic reference: (SEE CAS 0446).
  • <2>SBC3065 Article in serial: Alfred Heneage Cocks. 1907. 'EXPLORATION OF A NATURAL BARROW AT STONE', IN RECS OF BUCKS 9 PP263-279. Vol 9.
  • <3>SBC1280 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum. BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTERS.
  • <4>SBC12700 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 1 P293.
  • <5>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.
  • <6>SBC13982 Scheduling record: SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUME NTS,JULY 1933/ENGLISH HERITAGE,DEC 1992.

Location

Grid reference SP 77870 13160 (point)
Civil Parish STONE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (4)

  • Event - Intervention: (EBC11810)
  • Event - Intervention: (EBC11986)
  • Event - Survey: (EBC14169)
  • Event - Survey: Site visit by EH Field Monument Warden (EBC13831)

Record last edited

Jun 21 2017 11:47AM

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