Monument record 0108801000 - PITCHGREEN STEWKLEY

Summary

Possible early Saxon burial site

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • INHUMATION CEMETERY? (5th Century Saxon to 7th Century - 410 AD? to 699 AD?)

Description

Plan Form - Linear.
The human skulls, other bones, & warlike implements found on/near the linear earthwork (B1) may in fact indicate an early Saxon burial site (B4) rather than a ?Civil War battlefield (B1).
Site given in B1 as Pitch Green, a half-mile N of Stewkley Church; Pitchgreen Furlong (at NGR) marked on map of 1814 (B6).

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. p752.
  • <2>SBC11706 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner. 1960. Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. p243.
  • <3>SBC10742 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey. OS RECORD CARD SP 82 NE 2 (FILED).
  • <4>SBC20374 Bibliographic reference: A Meaney. 1964. Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites. p58.
  • <5>SBC10545 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. 1974. OS FIELD INVESTIGATION 1974 (DID NOT LOCATE SITE).
  • <6>SBC6852 Verbal communication: 1985. JONES NW 1985(NOV) INFO FROM STEWKLEY INCLOSURE MAP 1814 (BRO REF IR/114/AQ) & SEE HIS STEWKLEY PARISH SURVEY (FILED).

Location

Grid reference SP 85160 27280 (point)
Civil Parish STEWKLEY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC14190)
  • Event - Survey: Stewkley parish survey (EBC14372)

Record last edited

Feb 15 2023 11:08PM

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