Monument record 0124514000 - Ivinghoe Beacon midden mound
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Map
Type and Period (1)
- MIDDEN (Unknown date)
Description
English Heritage's Earthwork Survey Report of November 2000 identified a large mound measuring 30.5m x 20.3m by 1.0m high some 60m north of the entrance and which tailed away to the south. It is possibly a natural feature or perhaps the remains of a midden noted in similar associations with entrances at Uffington and Danebury. The mound may also form part of the outer defences constraining the trackways approaching the entrance. There is a well-defined small circular platform measuring 1.7m in diameter with a large apron-shaped earthwork on the downward slope. This possibly represents World War II activity. Two parallel ditches, on average 2.8m wide by 0.4m deep, run up hill in a SE direction terminating at the possible midden perhaps marking the line of trackway 1 (17).
Sources (18)
- ---SBC17662 Aerial Photograph: 18/04/61. CUC ACT 41. SP\960160. Yes.
- ---SBC19856 Photograph: John Gover. 2000. Bronze Age Sword Find from Ivinghoe Beacon Hill Fort. Print.
- <1>SBC12905 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 2 P154.
- <2>SBC903 Unpublished document: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER.
- <3>SBC8141 Article in serial: 1960. MANSHEAD MAGAZINE 1960 (JUNE) 4. No 4.
- <4>SBC4459 Article in serial: James Dyer. 1959. DYER J F 1959 BARROWS OF THE CHILTERNS, IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL JNL 116 P16. Vol 116.
- <5>SBC11717 Bibliographic reference: PEVSNER N 1960 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE P179.
- <6>SBC3219 Article in serial: M A Cotton & S S Frere. 1968. 'IVINGHOE BEACON EXCAVATIONS 1963-1965', IN RECS OF BUCKS 18 PP187-260. Vol 18, part 3.
- <7>SBC5953 Unpublished document: 1920. GURNEY F G 1920 NOTEBOOK/DIARY.
- <8>SBC10870 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD SP 91 NE 5 (FILED).
- <9>SBC3304 Bibliographic reference: CUNLIFFE B 1974 IRON AGE COMMUNITIES IN BRITAIN PP35,229.
- <10>SBC12442 Bibliographic reference: PROPERTIES OF THE NATIONAL TRUST (1977).
- <12>SBC4783 Verbal communication: FARLEY M E & PIKE A R (BCM) APRIL 1977 FIELD VISIT.
- <13>SBC5832 Article in serial: 1981. GREEN H S 1981 DATING IVINGHOE BEACON, IN RECS OF BUCKS 23 PP1-3. Vol 23.
- <14>SBC3353 Unpublished document: DALWOOD C H 1984/MDA CARDS.
- <15>SBC2569 Verbal communication: CASTLE S A (BRITISH MUSEUM) PER VERULAMIUM MUSEUM, ST ALBANS, SEPT 1985.
- <16>SBC19148 Unpublished document: John Gover. 2000. A Geophysical Investigation of Ivinghoe Beacon.
- <17>SBC19493 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2001. Ivinghoe Beacon, Ivinghoe: Survey Report.
Location
Grid reference | SP 96184 16939 (point) |
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Civil Parish | IVINGHOE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
Finds (0)
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Related Events/Activities (1)
- Event - Intervention: Topographic earthwork survey (EBC16179)
Record last edited
Aug 10 2020 8:13PM