Monument record 0995700000 - Area 4, Chandlers Hill

Summary

Iron Age to medieval pits, ditches, and sunken featured building identified by geophysical survey and excavation

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Saxon settlement and boundary ditch partly excavated in advance of cabling works

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Type and Period (2)

  • LINEAR FEATURE (Iron Age to Medieval - 800 BC to 1539 AD)
  • PIT (Iron Age to Medieval - 800 BC to 1539 AD)

Description

A magnetometer survey carried out by Archaeological Surveys Ltd along a proposed electricity cable route from Iver to Slough identified anomalies interpretted as linear features that may have been associated with the WWII anti aircraft batter, and a possible pit. See report for detail (B1).
Excavation identified pits and ditches dating from the Iron Age through to the medieval (B2).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC23672 Unpublished document: Archaeology & Planning Solutions. 2009. Iver to Slough 132Kv Cable Route, Chandlers Hill: Archaeological Assessment.
  • <2>SBC25016 Unpublished document: Foundations Archaeology. 2018. Iver - Slough 132kV Cable Route: Archaeological Mitigation: Post Excavation Assessment.
  • <3>SBC25016 Unpublished document: Foundations Archaeology. 2018. Iver - Slough 132kV Cable Route: Archaeological Mitigation: Post Excavation Assessment.
  • <4>SBC25327 Article in serial: Andrew Hood & Paul Blinkhorn. 2020. 'Archaeological Investigations at Chandlers Hill, Iver Heath', in Recs of Bucks 60, pp157-174. Vol 60.
  • <5>SBC26712 Unpublished document: Foundations Archaeology. 2012. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION: IVER TOSLOUGH POWER LINE, CHANDLERS HILL.

Location

Grid reference Centred TQ 03416 83358 (371m by 136m)
Civil Parish IVER, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Related Monuments/Buildings (4)

Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Event - Survey: Geophysical survey of Iver to Slough 132Kv Cable Route (EBC17308)
  • Event - Intervention: Strip, map and sample excavation: Iver-Slough cable route, Area 2 (Ref: ISB13) (EBC18029)

Record last edited

Dec 6 2023 3:19PM

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