Monument record 0124509000 - Ivinghoe Beacon house platforms

Summary

House platforms of unknown date associated with 'street' below north rampart recorded in field survey

Protected Status/Designation

  • Ancient Monument 1009544: A SLIGHT UNIVALLATE HILLFORT AND BOWL BARROW ON IVINGHOE BEACON HILL

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Type and Period (1)

  • HOUSE PLATFORM (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

English Heritage's Earthwork Survey Report of November 2000 identified that immediately downslope of the outer bank two slight scarps run parallel with the line of the main rampart. Alongside are four small circular platforms cut into the hillside measuring an average of 3.1m by 2.7m by 0.1m deep. Three more platforms were noted some 20m further west with fragments of asociated scarps. The earthworks are extremely slight and not easily distinguishable from natural terraces and soil creep (B17).

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  • ---SBC17662 Aerial Photograph: 18/04/61. CUC ACT 41. SP\960160. Yes.
  • <17>SBC19493 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2001. Ivinghoe Beacon, Ivinghoe: Survey Report.

Location

Grid reference SP 96032 16927 (point)
Civil Parish IVINGHOE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: Topographic earthwork survey (EBC16179)

Record last edited

Oct 28 2024 6:25PM

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