Monument record 0009501000 - LEY CHEQUERS: bed of mortar

Summary

Bed of mortar interpreted as a floor possibly from a grange found laying a gas pipeline at Ley Chequers

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Type and Period (1)

  • FLOOR? (1st Century Roman to Medieval - 43 AD? to 1539 AD?)

Description

WHILE LAYING GAS MAIN FROM GASWORKS TO TAPLOW MILLS THROUGH LEY CHEQUERS, ABOUT 100M FROM RIVER BANK, WHAT LOOKED LIKE LARGE BED OF CONCRETE UNCOVERED. RUTLAND BELIEVED IT TO BE THE SITE OF A MONASTERY (B6-7).
UNLIKELY TO BE MONASTERY: NO RECORD. COULD BE GRANGE OR CELL? OR PERHAPS ROMAN.(B8)

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC903 Unpublished document: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER.
  • <2>SBC2237 Unpublished document: C H DALWOOD 1984 (SEE NOTES FILED)/MDA CARDS.
  • <3>SBC14878 Article in serial: J Stephens. 1883. 'STONE IMPLEMENTS IN THE THAMES RIVER', IN BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOC. JNL 39 PP345-346. Vol 39.
  • <4>SBC60 Verbal communication: Andrew Pike (BCM). PERS COMM, FROM 1797 TAPLOW ENCLOSURE MAP (COPY, FILED).
  • <5>SBC68 Verbal communication: A R PIKE OCT 1978 FIELD VISIT.
  • <6>SBC6689 Unpublished document: J RUTLAND MS. (IN B.R.O. REF: D/X/749/2/3/P2) (TRANSCRIPT FILED).
  • <7>SBC7452 Article in serial: W R Leyster. 1926. 'TAPLOW, PART I', IN TAPLOW PARISH MAGAZINE.
  • <8>SBC5521 Verbal communication: G E SCRIMGEOUR, FEB 1988.

Location

Grid reference SU 90400 81800 (point)
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: (EBC13898)

Record last edited

Mar 27 2023 2:13PM

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