Monument record 0116103000 - Field E of Sentry Hill, Low Grounds Farm, Marlow

Summary

Bronze Age double ring-ditch plotted from aerial photographs and geophysical survey.

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (2)

  • RING DITCH? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)

Description

Dimensions - Radius 14m.
Plan Form - Annular.
Double ring ditch shown on APs approx at NGR. Concentric ditches, c27m & 16m respectively. No trace on the ground (B1,B24)
Plotted (B2).
Ring ditches plotted from available APs at 1:2,500 (NMR method)(B3).
A detailed gradiometer survey carried out by Wessex Archaeology successfully located numerous anomalies of archaeological interest. The most interesting of these are two concentric annular anomalies appearing to form part of a barrow cemetery with two ring ditches identified by the previous WA geophysical survey. Near the northeastern extent of the survey area a sub-annular anomaly some 12m in diameter is consistent with the response from a roundhouse (B20).

Sources (26)

  • ---SBC17963 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 28. SU\837850. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17966 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 29. SU\841855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17968 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 30. SU\841855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17969 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 32. SU\841855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17970 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 33. SU\839855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17972 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 59. \.
  • ---SBC17993 Aerial Photograph: 19/06/59. CUC YO 36. SU\841855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17994 Aerial Photograph: 19/06/59. CUC YO 37. SU\841855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17995 Aerial Photograph: 19/06/59. CUC YO 38. SU\839854. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC18694 Aerial Photograph: 19/06/70. NMR/SU 8385/1/88. SU\839855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC18695 Aerial Photograph: 19/06/70. NMR/SU 8385/1/89. SU\839855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC18696 Aerial Photograph: 19/06/70. NMR/SU 8385/1/90. SU\839855. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC18697 Aerial Photograph: 19/07/77. NMR/SU 8485/10/219. SU\842853. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC18698 Aerial Photograph: 19/07/77. NMR/SU 8485/9/216. SU\842854. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC20006 Unpublished document: Marlow Archaeological Society. 1999-2001. Report on the field work at Low Grounds Farm, Marlow.
  • ---SBC20318 Article in serial: Joan Burrow-Newton. 1999. Somebody did get their hands dirty. Vol 1, Issue 5, Nov 1999.
  • ---SBC20319 Article in serial: Geoff Fairclough. 2000. West of Marlow Field Walk September 1999: update. July 2000. pp5.
  • ---SBC20320 Article in serial: Joan Burrow-Newton. 2000. MAS Members Evening. Vol 2, issue 10, Oct 2000. pp6-9.
  • ---SBC20321 Unpublished document: Elias Kupfermann and Geoff Fairclough. 2000. Fieldwalking Exercise on a possible ploughed-out barrow cemetery at Marlow.
  • <1>SBC11125 Bibliographic reference: Ordnance Survey. 1968. OS RECORD CARD SU 88 NW 18.
  • <2>SBC27458 Bibliographic reference: Timothy Gates. 1975. The Middle Thames Valley : An Archaeological Survey of the River Gravels. p44.
  • <3>SBC3473 Graphic material: Denise Allen (BCM). 1979. AP PLOT (FILED).
  • <4>SBC5506 Bibliographic reference: G E SCRIMGEOUR JULY 1988 FROM BI3 & AP1-14.
  • <5>SBC13178 Unpublished document: RCHM(E). 1995. The Thames Valley Project: a Report for the National Mapping Programme.
  • <20>SBC24221 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2008. Land adjacent to Lower Pound Lane, Marlow, Buckinghamshire: Detailed Gradiometer Survey Report.
  • <24>SBC27602 Verbal communication: N K Blood. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 NKB 29-JUL-74.

Location

Grid reference SU 83970 85420 (point)
Civil Parish MARLOW, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (7)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC11915)
  • Event - Survey: Aerial photography (EBC11902)
  • Event - Survey: Fieldwalking 1999 (EBC16389)
  • Event - Survey: Fieldwalking and resistivity survey 2000 (EBC16390)
  • Event - Intervention: Fieldwalking, geophysical survey and trial trenching 2001 (EBC16395)
  • Event - Survey: Geophysical Survey (EBC17519)
  • Event - Intervention: Geophysical survey and trial trenching 2002 (EBC16394)

Record last edited

May 17 2026 1:57PM

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