Monument record 0123000000 - DUNDRIDGE FARM, ST LEONARDS

Summary

Possible Iron Age bloomery found in a brickearth quarry at Dundridge Farm, St Leonards

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  • Planning Notification Area: Iron Age iron smelting furnace found in quarry

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Type and Period (1)

  • BLOOMERY? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

PIT, ABOUT 90CM DEEP, CONTAINING CHARCOAL AND IRON SLAG. FOUND IN A BRICKEARTH QUARRY AND EXAMINED BY CICELY BAKER. OTHER SLAG FINDS IN AREA, AND IRON STONE (ORE). PROBABLY IRON AGE FURNACE OR SMELTING PIT. NEARBY IRON AGE SHERDS (01:000) (B1-6).
Quarry shown on the OS 1973 Edition 6in map (B7).
A large mound of iron slag reported by John Morris in 2007. The mound was approx 12mX20m and 1m high (B8).

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC966 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER 1947.
  • <2>SBC2004 Article in serial: BUCKS ADVERTISER AND AYLESBURY NEWS 8 NOV 1946.
  • <3>SBC6306 Bibliographic reference: HEAD J F 1955 EARLY MAN IN SOUTH BUCKS PP65-66, 14 5, FIG 22.
  • <4>SBC13270 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 18 1969 P323.
  • <5>SBC11386 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARDS SP 90 NW 04.
  • <6>SBC797 Bibliographic reference: BAKER MISS C NOTES ON FIND AND LETTER TO J.F HEAD GIVEN BY MRS HEAD MARCH 1984.
  • <7>SBC20218 Unpublished document: CMAG. 1980(?)-2001. Mineral Extraction Sites in Buckinghamshire. D1553.
  • <8>SBC25143 Unpublished document: John Morris, Chiltern Woodlands Project. 2007. Iron Working sites/iron slag finds.

Location

Grid reference SP 91540 06160 (point)
Civil Parish CHOLESBURY-CUM-ST. LEONARDS, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC13373)

Record last edited

Jan 19 2022 7:27AM

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