Monument record 0065801000 - NW OF ST MARY'S CHURCH

PROSECUTIONS IN EXCHEQUER AFTER 1517 SUGGEST DECAY ALL THROUGH C15. SITE OF VILLAGE LIES TO W OF ISOLATED CHURCH (B7).
PLATFORMS OF DMV SEEN IN SECTION (B5).
ROAD HAS DESTROYED CENTRAL AREA OF HOUSE PLATFORMS & ALL OF REST OF VILLAGE HAS BEEN PLOUGHED (B8).
NO SURVEYABLE REMAINS OF VILLAGE (B10).
Geophysical surveys carried out by Pre-Construct Geophysics between January and May 2009 identified a dense concentration of settlement activity, pits, tracks and ditched property boundaries in Fields 10 and 11, representing much of the deserted medieval settlement. A curving boundary ditch appears to define the extent of the village on the north and east, with a possible extension to the south. A number of the anomalies detected in Field 11 (described as a ladder enclosure system) were visible as earthworks in aerial photos in the 1950s and 1960s. See report for detail (B14).

A medieval deserted settlement is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located in fields immediately S of Fleet Marston Farm and centred at SP 77737 16194, a fragmented network of linear and sinuous boundary ditches suggest a complex of rectilinear and subrectangular enclosures of various sizes. These features extend across an area about 450 metres NNW-SSE and 450 metres WSW-ENE. On the W boundary of the features is a slightly subcircular mound about 28 metres in diameter at its widest. The function is unclear but may be a windmill mound (15-19).




(SP 779160) Village (NR) (site of)(NAT) (B27).
Fleet Marston DMV: Good archaeological evidence with a pattern of roads and crofts and excellent historical documentation. Deserted c1450-1700 (B28).
Roads and crofts visible on air photographs. (Centred SP 777161) (B20, B21).
Romano-British sherd and Medieval sherds found by C Stanley and A Jeffs June/July 1969. In Bucks County Museum, Acc No 143-145.69 (B22).
At the same time as the finding of the sherds (Auth 5) Jeffs and Stanley saw platforms of the Deserted Medieval Village in section during roadworks (B5).
The nucleus of the village as shown on AP's at SP 775163 is now cut by a modern re-route of the A41 road and the fields on each side are under deep plough. Little settlement work survives, and that which does no longer forms a coherent pattern. To the W and NW of St Mary's Church (SP 778160) a small area of enclosure gullies and possible steads lie under rough pasture. These are probably contemporary with the church (17/18th c?) (B23).
No change to report of authority 7 gave that the "enclosure gullies" detc adjacent to the church, are under high crop and cannot be identified. There are no surveyable remains of this village (B24).
A rapid examination of air photography (b26) shows the earthworks and soilmarks of the DMV, visible from St. Mary's Church to Fleetmarston Farm (B25).
NRHE insert 2004 (B29).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.