Monument record 0782100000 - Field north of Leighton Road

Summary

Later Iron age ditch, an undated pit, and residual fragment of Roman brick and tile identified during trial trench evaluation.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (2)

  • DITCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • PIT (Unknown date)

Description

Ditch [203], 0.80m wide and 0.40m deep, contained 4 small sherds of later Iron Age pottery. It possibly provides evidence of Later Iron Age land management. An undated pit in Trench 3 may relate to the ditch (B1).
Earlier geophysical survey was negative (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC24711 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2015. Land to the north of Leighton Road, Wingrave: Archaeological Evaluation Report.
  • <2>SBC24672 Unpublished document: Bartlett-Clark Consultancy. 2015. Land North of Leighton Road, Wingrave: Archaeological Geophysical Survey 2015.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 87048 19378 (42m by 24m)
Civil Parish WINGRAVE WITH ROWSHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (2)

  • SHERD (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
  • BRICK? (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Event - Survey: Geophysical survey (EBC17771)
  • Event - Intervention: Trial trench evaluation (Ref: WILR15) (EBC17817)

Record last edited

Dec 30 2020 3:34PM

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