Monument record 0060100000 - KEEP HILL, CHEPPING WYCOMBE

Summary

Earthworks on Keep Hill, once thought to be an Iron Age hillfort

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  • (Former Type) HILLFORT (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

ANCIENT BRITISH CAMP WITH INNER & OUTER ENTRENCHMENTS (B4).
FORTRESS ON KEEP HILL. N PORTION OF ENCIENTE HAS ENTIRELY VANISHED (B7).
HILLFORT ON W SUMMIT OF E-W RIDGE. INTERIOR NOW BUILT UPON BUT BANK & DITCH SURVIVE INTACT (B14).
MAY 1988: MONUMENT DESCHEDULED (B17).
SITE WRONGLY INDENTIFIED (B15).

Sources (18)

  • <1>SBC5604 Article in serial: 1827. GENTLEMANS MAGAZINE 1827 27 PP493-494.
  • <2>SBC9949 Article in serial: J Norris. 1829. 'ACCOUNT OF SOME BRITISH COINS FOUND NEAR HIGH WYCOMBE IN 1827', IN ARCHAEOLOGIA 22 PP297-299. Vol 22.
  • <3>SBC4682 Bibliographic reference: J Evans. 1864. COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS PP227-23 2,247-248.
  • <4>SBC11513 Bibliographic reference: PARKER J 1878 EARLY HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF WYCOM BE P3.
  • <5>SBC14743 Bibliographic reference: SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON PROCEEDINGS 1864 2ND SERIES 2 P361(NOTE BY A W FRANKS).
  • <6>SBC4311 Article in serial: R S Downs. 1905. 'OLD COINS', IN RECS OF BUCKS 9 PP210-211; EVANS J LETTER FROM P281.
  • <7>SBC20350 Bibliographic reference: A Hadrian Allcroft. 1908. Earthwork of England. pp168, 442.
  • <8>SBC20461 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1908. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume II. Volume 2. pp19, 26.
  • <9>SBC6243 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. EARLY MAN IN SOUTH BUCKS PP57,78-79,155-156 & FIGS 17 & 28.
  • <10>SBC368 Article in monograph: D F Allen. 1958. 'THE ORIGINS OF COINAGE IN BRITAIN: A REAPPRAISAL', IN FRERE S S (ED) PROBLEMS OF THE IRON AGE IN SOUTHERN BRITAIN PP97-308. p220.
  • <11>SBC1280 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum. BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTERS.
  • <12>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.
  • <13>SBC13428 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1965 17 P411;1974 19 P407.
  • <14>SBC13980 Scheduling record: SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUME NTS,AUG 1962.
  • <15>SBC5744 Verbal communication: 1980. CHARLES GORDON (DOE FIELD WARDEN), MIKE FARLEY & ANDREW PIKE (BCM), NOV 1980, FIELD VISIT.
  • <16>SBC6313 Unpublished document: HEAD J F NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE GIVEN BY HIS WIDOW IN 1984.
  • <17>SBC6195 Unpublished document: 1988. HBMC CORRESPONDENCE, MAY 1988.
  • <18>SBC25324 Bibliographic reference: Philip de Jersey. 2014. Coin Hoards in Iron Age Britain.

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 8734 9203 (90m by 130m)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13822)

Record last edited

Feb 12 2024 12:56PM

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