Monument record 0011100000 - BANKY BURROWFIELD

Summary

The site of a levelled barrow, visible on air photographs. Neolithic to Bronze Age barrow.

Protected Status/Designation

Archaeological Notification Area: Site of a prehistoric barrow (DBC9225)
SHINE: Neolithic to Bronze Age barrow visible as a soil mark on aerial photographs, on LiDAR as a shallow mound, with associated surface scatters of Neolithic to Bronze Age pottery and flints. (DBC8260)

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Type and Period (1)

ROUND BARROW (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)

Description

Dimensions - Height 0060 Radius 0460 cm
Plan Form - CIRCULAR
2 BARROWS NOTED ON N SIDE OF STOKENCHURCH, ADJOINING GT & LT BURROW FIELDS (B1).
FIELD CALLED BANKY BURROWFIELD (B2).
RING DITCH NOTED ON APS. IDENTIFIED AS BARROW WITH CENTRAL TURF STACK & CHALK SURROUND. FLINTS & POT FOUND (B3).
MOUND BULLDOZED, FLINT FLAKES FOUND & ?FLINT CAIRN (B4-5).
AP PLOTTED (B6).
Evident as soilmark (B7)
[Shallow mound still evident on LiDAR]

(SU 7694 9685) (1) A round barrow, almost totally ploughed out showing on Aps as a crop-mark with central turf-stack and surrounding ditch (2).

Delafield (3) makes two references to two barrows to the north of Stokenchurch adjoining "Great and Little Burrowfields" (p 204) and two two barrows on the "left-hand side of…Colliers Lane" (name at SU 765 971) in a field called "Banky Burrowfield" (p 166) (they are probably one and the same group). (B8, B9, B10)

Only one barrow (that visible on Aps) is known in the the area, and no others are apparent during routine perambulation. It has been bulldozed by the local farmer who found nothing, and since ploughed, reducing it to an amorphous mound c 30.0m in diameter and 0.3m high. There is no trace of a ditch (B11).

Update 2004 (B12).

Sources (16)

---SBC17736 Aerial Photograph: 13/06/69. CUC AXS 32-33. \.
---SBC18823 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 11/01/57. RAF 2081. \.
---SBC18968 Aerial Photograph: 11/01/57. RAF/2153. \.
---SBC18970 Aerial Photograph: 05/06/62. RAF/HSL/RUN 14/0947. \.
<1>SBC3454 Bibliographic reference: DELAFIELD REV T. C1741 HISTORY OF STOKENCHURCH P20 4 (GOUGH MS. BODLEIAN L47)(TRANSCRIBED IN MANNING.
<2>SBC6246 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. Early Man in South Buckinghamshire. pp56,165.
<3>SBC3195 Unpublished document: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN C N GOWING & R F PARKER, 1970 (FILED)/DR J G EVANS' RECORD CARD (FILED)/BCM.
<4>SBC2429 Unpublished document: CAS CARD 0111.
<5>SBC9262 Verbal communication: MR C C JACKSON & M E FARLEY 25 SEPT 1972 FIELD VISIT.
<6>SBC3483 Graphic material: Denise Allen (BCM). 1979. PLOT OF A/P'S AT 1:2500(PAPER-STRIP METHOD)(PLOT FILED).
<7>SBC25655 Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. 2018. Google Earth aerial photograph dated 2018.
<8>SBC27539 Digital archive: Historic England. VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION - RAF APs 106G/UK/1396 3080-3 10.4.46.
<9>SBC27540 Digital archive: Historic England. 1970. VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION - Recs Bucks 18 (5) 1970 439 Bucks Co Mus.
<10>SBC27541 Digital archive: Historic England. VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION - Hist of Stokenchurch 1741 166 204 (DelaFIeld).
<11>SBC27542 Verbal communication: N K Blood. 1972. Field Investigators Comments - F1 NKB 29-NOV-72.
<12>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference	Centred SU 76940 96850 (10m by 10m)
Civil Parish	STOKENCHURCH, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (1)

Event - Survey: (EBC1389)

Record last edited

Jun 16 2025 12:20PM