Monument record 0093101000 - RAGPIT HILL

Summary

Possible Iron Age hillfort recorded in field survey

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • HILLFORT? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)

Description

1912 DESCRIBED AS HILL CAMP. CLAIMS DISGUISED BY SERIES OF PATHS & CHALK PITS (B1).
NOTED AS UNIVALLATE HILLFORT (B2).
CLAIM THAT ABSENCE OF FINDS POSSIBLY INDICATES CIVIL WAR CONNECTION (B3).
DEBATE OVER NATURE OF THE EARTHWORKS; SEEMS MOST LIKELY NOT TO BE A HILLFORT (B4,B6).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p164.
  • <2>SBC10430 Map: OS 1962 MAP OF SOUTHERN BRITAIN IN THE IRON AGE P40.
  • <3>SBC6785 Bibliographic reference: JENKINS J G 1967 CHEQUERS P3.
  • <4>SBC3202 Bibliographic reference: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN OS & C N GOWING (BCM) 1964 (FILED).
  • <6>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.

Location

Grid reference SP 82750 06000 (point)
Civil Parish GREAT AND LITTLE KIMBLE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (3)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC13656)
  • Event - Survey: (EBC14131)
  • Event - Survey: (EBC14168)

Record last edited

Oct 13 2024 1:35PM

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