Monument record 0583200000 - BETWEEN BUCKLAND/PUTTENHAM

COPROLITE WORKINGS WERE KNOWN TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE NEAR THE CANAL BETWEEN BUCKLAND & PUTTENHAM FROM 1874-5. ON THE ROAD NW FROM BUCKLAND A COPROLITE PIT WAS SEEN [BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY] NEAR THE CANAL, 8-10FT DEEP WITH THE SEAM 18IN THICK (B1-2).
MR O'CONNOR POINTS OUT TO MEF THE SITE OF THE WORKINGS (B3).

This area was assessed as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). However, the features described (above) could not be identified in the location covered by the monument record shape; the 1940s aerial photographs show clear ridge and furrow earthworks, not the wide rough linear earthworks which result from coprolite extraction. An extraction site was identified 500m to the north, in Tring Rural, Hertfordshire (MHTNEW Warden). A small scale plan in O’Connor, 1990, p77, shows sites to the north and south of the Grand Junction Canal but the site south of the canal does not appear to be at this location from more detailed evidence. A conjectural location is approximately 620m to the west (see MBC47808) where ditches or trenches are visible within ridge and furrow earthworks in 1945. The underlying geology is Gault Formation and Upper Greensand Formation; modern landuse is arable and there is no earthwork evidence of ridge and furrow earthworks remaining. (4-7)