Monument record 0060100000 - KEEP HILL, CHEPPING WYCOMBE

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).


(SU 8737 9205) Camp (NR)
Ancient British Coins found (NAT)

Keep Hill an ancient British Camp with inner and outer entrenchments. In 1826, 11 ancient British gold coins, in fine preservation, were found deposited in the hollow of a stone
on the hill, 5 of which were purchased by the late John Norris, three of them were presented by him to the British Museum and one to the Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh.

Keep Hill. Probable Hill Fort; but shown as old roads on pre-railway plan of High Wycombe.

The features referred to are old roads, two of a series of hollow-ways which traverse the slopes of Keep Hill. They commence near the hill top, and descend steadily down the SE and the steeper NE slopes of the hill towards the valley bottom and High Wycombe. The principal (published) hollow-way on passing into the grounds of Wycombe Abbey, via some iron gates, becomes a terraceway. The road probably went out of use at the time of the emparking of Wycombe Abbey Daws Hill. The feature is not mentioned by the RCHM (1912).

(SU 8791) A bronze ornament, now in the British Museum, was found on Keep Hill about 1862-3. It was 4 1/2" long and consisted of a quadrangular tube or socket, with flanges round three sides of one end, and a bust of Minerva at the other end. Such objects have been assumed to be the ornaments on the poles of chariots, and alleged Roman; although Renn implies that it is Saxon in date.

IA Coin hoard from High Wycombe comprising 11 gold staters of Tasciovanus.

SP874921 Earthwork on Keep Hill, Scheduled (B19)

Descheduled (B20)


Formerly County Legacy Schuduled Mon BU78
NRHE Insert 1998, Update 2011 (B21)