Monument record 0127300000 - PITSTONE HILL

Summary

Iron Age to post-medieval dykes, hollow-ways and settlement features recorded in field survey

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Earthwork and cropmark complex of Prehistoric and Medieval settlement, field system, hollow ways and boundaries on Pitstone Hill

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Type and Period (1)

  • LINEAR SYSTEM (Early Iron Age to Post-Medieval - 700 BC? to 1798 AD?)

Description

COMPLEX OF DYKES (DI-DIV), TRACKWAYS (T1-T3), LYNCHETS, SETTLEMENTS, DITCHES &C EXAMINED (B1). RE-INTERPRETED: ALL DYKES EXCEPT IV- SERIES OF HOLLOW WAYS CONVERGING ON MAIN TRACK TO PITSTONE VILLAGE? (B2). PART OF GRIMS DITCH? (B5). NGR TO CENTRE (B2). SEEN AS A DENDRITIC SYSTEM OF HOLLOW WAYS (SURVEY)(B6).
Survey of Ashridge Estate identified 9 separate points on "Upper Grim's Ditch" for national Trust SMR. Se report for more detail (B10).

Sources (14)

  • ---SBC17531 Aerial Photograph: 01/01/90. BCM A4/15/16-17. SP\953146. Yes.
  • ---SBC17611 Aerial Photograph: 01/01/80. CSC 00.000. SP\953147. Yes.
  • ---SBC17612 Aerial Photograph: 01/01/80. CSC 00.001. SP\953148. Yes.
  • ---SBC17613 Aerial Photograph: 01/01/80. CSC 00.002. SP\953148. Yes.
  • <1>SBC4464 Article in serial: Dyer J and Hales A. 1961. DYER J F & HALES A J 1961 PITSTONE HILL- A STUDY IN FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY, IN RECS OF BUCKS 17 PP49-56.
  • <2>SBC8338 Bibliographic reference: MEF & ARP 1977(APRIL) FIELD VISIT.
  • <3>SBC11388 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARDS SP 91 SE 5; SP 91 SW (M).
  • <4>SBC5868 Bibliographic reference: GRESSWELL D 1979/80(WINTER OF) SERIES OF AP'S (COP IES AT BCM).
  • <5>SBC3434 Bibliographic reference: DAVIS J 1981 GRIM'S DITCH IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE & HER EFORDSHIRE, IN RECSOFBUCKS"23PP23-31".
  • <6>SBC4424 Bibliographic reference: DUNGWORTH D 1991 PITSTONE: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARIS H SURVEY PP33-36,PL 3:1-6 (COPY IN CAS FILE 2746).
  • <7>SBC19564 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1997. An Archaeological and Management Survey of Grim's Ditch, Buckinghamshire.
  • <8>SBC19565 Unpublished document: Network Archaeology. 1998. Grim's Ditch Archaeological and Management Survey Phase II.
  • <9>SBC19566 Unpublished document: Network Archaeology. 1999. Grim's Ditch Archaeological and Management Survey Phase III.
  • <10>SBC20698 Unpublished document: Northamptonshire Archaeology. 2003. Archaeological Survey of Aldbury Nowers, Pitstone Hill and Down Farm, on the Ashridge Estate: January - March 2003.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 9532 1429 (1050m by 1420m)
Civil Parish PITSTONE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (5)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC13223)
  • Event - Survey: (EBC13224)
  • Event - Survey: (EBC14242)
  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC1399)
  • Event - Survey: Survey of Pitstone Hill and Down Farm (EBC16941)

Record last edited

Jul 13 2009 10:57AM

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