Monument record 0069100000 - S OF VICARAGE FARM

OLD EARTHWORKS MARKED ADJACENT TO LOWER FARM (B3).
SEVERAL LARGE, RATHER SHAPELESS EARTHWORKS, MOST PROBABLY THE RESULT OF QUARRYING. SOME MAY REPRESENT VILLAGE SHRINKAGE; ALSO POSSIBLY OF CIVIL WAR DATE (B4).
NO COHERENT SETTLEMENT PATTERN SURVIVES (B5).
REMAINS OF EXTENSIVE FORTIFICATIONS (B2).
T Clark metal detector finds Roman - Medieval & C (B7-10).
Site visit 1996 (B11).
Further T Clark finds 1994-95 (B12).
Finds photos filed. Further metal detector finds (?Medieval) 1997 (B13).

A medieval and/or post 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 S of Stonethorpe Farm and centred at SP 78554 12023, the earthworks comprise two sections of hollow way up to 13 metres wide that curves SW from Bishopstone Road to 350 metres W. Visible as an earthwork hollow way on aerial photographs taken in 1946, it has now become a road to Stonethorpe Farm. Perpendicular to this are two parallel linear ditches that are bounded by narrow earthwork banks that extend S up to 70 metres. Between these are a 12 metres square earthwork mound, within which is a circular hollow or pit about 6.5 metres in diameter centred at SP 78567 11983, the function of which is uncertain. To the W are three further perpendicular ditches that extend S from the hollow way, suggesting possible land or property boundaries. To the N of the hollow way at the W end are two curving scarps that form two terraces or platforms, as well as a system of interconnected linear ditches that may describe two further rectilinear land boundaries. Set to the NE adjacent Bishopstone Road is a rectangular platform about 35 x 25 metres, surrounded by a ditch up to 10 metres wide. On aerial photographs taken in 2023 and recent remote sensing data, the earthworks remain (15-19).



(SP 783119) Shrunken Medieval village of Stone. Not listed in DMV's 1971 (M Beresford & J G Hurst) (B20).
The suggested area of Medieval shrinkage lying in Farm Close (b22) field has been severely mutilated by surface tipping and the construction of an agricultural reservoir. No coherent pattern of settlement survives. The holloways on the north east side of the site are the result of re-routing of the modern road (B21).
NRHE Insert 1997, Update 2004 (B23).

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