Monument record 0127305000 - PITSTONE HILL

Summary

Possible Iron Age field system recorded from aerial photographs but on field survey and comparisons with historic maps suggests none are pre-Roman

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Type and Period (7)

  • (Former Type) FIELD SYSTEM? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • (Former Type) LYNCHET? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • (Former Type) CELTIC FIELD SYSTEM? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • FIELD SYSTEM (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD)
  • LYNCHET (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD)
  • CULTIVATION TERRACE (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD)
  • FIELD BOUNDARY (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD)

Description

MAPPING OF FIELDS IN B1 FROM OBLIQUE AP'S?: VERTICAL AP'S SHOW IT TO BE INACCURATE. LITTLE TRACE OF FIELDS ON GROUND: NOW HEAVILY PLOUGHED. LYNCHETS COULD BE 'CELTIC FIELDS' (B2). FIELDS RE-PLOTTED. WHEN COMPARED WITH EARLY MAPS, MANY SHOWN TO BE POST-MEDIEVAL. SOME MAY BE EARLIER BUT NOT PRE-ROMAN (B6).
Possible 'Celtic' field system identified by Dyer is actually the remains of a medieval field system including lynchets, field banks and terraces (B7)

Sources (11)

  • ---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>SBC20698 Unpublished document: Northamptonshire Archaeology. 2003.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 SP 95400 14400 (point)
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

Feb 12 2018 4:14PM

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