Monument record 0122100000 - WYCOMBE CEMETERY

Dimensions - Depth/Thickness 213cm, Radius 122cm.
Plan Form - CIRCULAR
AREA FORMS PART OF MALMER'S WELL. PIT DISCOVERED DURING EXCAVATION. NEARLY CIRCULAR CHAMBER-SLIGHTLY TAPERING AT THE BOTTOM. WELL DEFINED. DIFFERENT LAYERS-CHARRED WOOD AT THE BOTTOM. THEN BONES, POTTERY& CHALK RUBBISH (B1). PROBABLY AN IRON AGE CORN-STORAGE PIT (B5).
SEE ALSO CASS 00373.


(SU 86769349) Ancient British remains found. (B7)

An excavation, in 1863, made in the High Wycombe Cemetery, revealed a pit or circular chamber, seven feet deep, eight feet in diameter at the top and slightly tapering to a diameter of six feet at the bottom, these limits were well defined. Layers of different substances filled the chamber; a little less than three feet of the bottom consisted principally of charred wood, "evidently the remains of a cremation". Three feet above this was a mass of animal bones, unburnt Celtic pottery in fragments, and chalk rubbish. Besides these, there was a fragment of iron, and some roughly shaped flint implements. These relics were covered with a twelve inch thick layer of large squared flints, which came up to within a few inches of the surface. Other remains have since been discovered, of which no record has been preserved.
Probably an Iron Age corn-storage pit. (B1)

No further information (B8).

NRHE Update 1998 (B9).