Monument record 0959700000 - Prehistoric ditches on the Aylesbury-Steppingley pipeline

A single base sherd of probable Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age pottery was retrieved from ditch 659. If it wasn't residual, it may date the ditch. A gully, 661, cut the ditch and must have been from the same period or later. Both features were aligned in the same direction but it is unlikely that the gully was a recut of the ditch because it was a lot smaller. It may represent the re-establishment of the boundary. The ditch was filled with pottery, bone and some burnt deposits. Little settlement evidence was found in the gully. This suggests that any nearby settlement had been abandoned or had migrated away from the gully by the time it had fallen out of use. A 6m wide linear feature 657 in the same area extended beneath a modern track and contained post-medieval pottery in it's fill (B1).