Monument record 0664300000 - Approx 550m N of Barnett House

Summary

Cropmarks of ditched enclosures of unknown date and possible Iron Age square barrow recorded by aerial photography

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Cropmarks of undated ditched enclosures (DBC9877)
  • SHINE: Late Iron Age to Early Roman enclosures and possible Iron Age square barrow. Visible on aerial photos and dated by surface finds of pottery. (DBC10143)

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Type and Period (15)

  • DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
  • SQUARE ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
  • RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
  • CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE? (Unknown date)
  • BOUNDARY DITCH? (Unknown date)
  • PIT (Unknown date)
  • SQUARE BARROW? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE (Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 800 BC? to 409 AD?)
  • PIT (Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 800 BC? to 409 AD?)
  • LINEAR FEATURE (Unknown date)
  • DITCH (Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 800 BC? to 409 AD?)
  • MACULA (Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 800 BC? to 409 AD?)
  • MACULA (Post-Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1798 AD?)
  • EXTRACTIVE PIT (Post-Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1798 AD?)
  • QUARRY (Post-Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1798 AD?)

Description

Cropmarks of a small sub-rectangular or square enclosure, possibly with a central pit, and other cropmark enclosures - possibly ditched enclosures and field boundaries, seen on APs taken by Mike Farley in July 1999 (B1).
Report on cropmarks, including plot at 1:2500 (B2).

A trapezoidal ditched enclosure, pits and linear ditches of probable Iron Age and/or Roman date is visible on aerial photographs as cropmarks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located in a field about 535 metres N of Barnett House and centred at SP 83799 17712, a trapezoidal ditch up to 2.2 metres wide encloses an internal area about 13 metres x 13 metres at its widest point. Within the enclosure is a subrectangular ditch about 6 metres x 2.5 metres. Two small circular pits lie just outside the enclosure ditch. To the E is a linear ditch aligned N-S that connects at the S end with a ditch aligned W-E. To the S of this are several linear ditch sections in different orientations and a 1.5 metres wide curving ditch that extends from ESE-W for 92 metres. To the W of these features is a large area of probably post medieval extraction, about 40 metres WSW-ENE and 160 metres NNW-SSE (3-4).

Sources (5)

  • ---SBC19687 Aerial Photograph: Michael Farley. 1999. Michael Farley APs 508/4-5. SP83501610. No.
  • <1>SBC19688 Verbal communication: Michael Farley. 1999. Farley M to Wise J Sept 1999.
  • <2>SBC19093 Unpublished document: J Bernard Jones. 2000. Report on Crop Mark Complex at Bierton, Nr. Aylesbury, Bucks..
  • <3>SBC19686 Aerial Photograph: Michael Farley. 1999. Michael Farley APs 507/24-28. SP83501610. Yes. Yes.
  • <4>SBC27126 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2024. NMR 26691_047 09-JUL-2010.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 83665 16365 (173m by 225m)
Civil Parish BIERTON WITH BROUGHTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire
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Record last edited

Feb 3 2025 11:59AM

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