Monument record 0011100000 - BANKY BURROWFIELD

Summary

Neolithic to Bronze Age barrow recorded on aerial photographs but now bulldozed

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Site of a prehistoric barrow
  • 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.

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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).
[Shallow mound still evident on LiDAR]

Sources (11)

  • ---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. \.
  • ---SBC25655 Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. 2018. Google Earth aerial photograph dated 2018.
  • <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SBC3195 Unpublished document: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN C N GOWING & R F PARKER, 1970 (FILED)/DR J G EVANS' RECORD CARD (FILED)/BCM.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SBC2429 Unpublished document: CAS CARD 0111.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).

Location

Grid reference SU 76940 96850 (point)
Civil Parish STOKENCHURCH, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: (EBC1389)

Record last edited

Nov 22 2024 8:31PM

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