Monument record 0762500000 - Ring ditch visible as cropmark

Cropmark of ring ditch, possibly Bronze Age round barrow, visible on aerial photograph taken in 1940 (B1).

Two ring ditches of probable Bronze Age date are visible on historic aerial photographs as cropmarks and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located in a field adjacent Padbury Brook about 600 metres SE of Oldfields Copse and centred at SP 63116 27769, a ring ditch between 3 and 4 metres wide encloses an internal area about 29.5 metres in diameter. Bissecting the ring ditch just south of its centre point is a slightly curvilinear ditch about 1.5 metres wide and 52 metres long, aligned WSW-ENE. Whether this linear feature is contemporary with, earlier or later in date than the ring ditch is unclear. Located some 45 metres to the south and centred at SP 63113 27724 is a smaller ring ditch of probable Bronze Age date, that is between 1.3 and 2 metres wide and encloses an internal area about 13 metres in diameter (2-3).