Monument record 0059300000 - CHETWODE,100M.S.OF CHURCH

CHETWODE VILLAGE,SCATTERED WITH SITE AWAY FROM MODERN CHURCH.3-4 COTTAGES,6 MORE ON MAIN ROAD(B1-2).

Medieval village shrinkage is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Scattered around Chetwode village, the settlement remains include ponds or fishponds, boundary ditches, terraced ground and platforms, adjacent to three moated sites and nearby ‘Chetwode Moats’.

Centred at SP 63949 29667 are two adjacent irregularly shaped ponds, possibly fishponds, one L-shaped and one roughly the shape of a gunstock. These are depicted as a water-filled pond or ponds on the 1813 Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawing. However, by the 1881 dated 1st Edition OS map, the ponds appear to be no longer water-filled but form the course of a pathway within trees. Adjacent to these are a series of contiguous subrectangular terraced platforms. Cutting across these are two parallel linear ditches aligned NW-SE, one 1 metre wide and 43 metres long and the other 1 metre wide and 35 metres long.

Centred at SP 63855 29637 is a curving ditch up to 10 metres wide and 92 metres long. Its function is uncertain but may also have been a pond or fishpond.

Centred at SP 64048 29546 are two adjacent rectilinear platforms, one about 37 x 24 metres bounded on the W side by a ditch and centred some 50 metres to its E is a rectilinear platform about 27 x 23 metres.

Centred at SP 464279 229899 is a rectangular platform about 33.5 x 30 metres. Centred some 115 metres to the WNW at SP 64174 29936 are two contiguous platforms, one rectangular and 40 x 32 metres and immediately on its E side is a subrectangular platform about 28.5 x 20 metres. Some 25 metres E of this is a subcircular mound about 16 metres in diameter at its widest point.

Centred at SP 63913 29838 is a rectangular platform or terraced ground about 73 x 41 metres, bounded on the N and S by linear ditches about 1.5 metres wide aligned WSW-ENE, by the bank and ditch boundary to the W and by a scarp on the E side (3-8).