Monument record 0012201000 - NW OF OAK FARM

AP SHOWS EXTENSIVE SHRINKAGE: HOUSE PLATFORMS & COMPLEX OF HOLLOWAYS (B3), ESPECIALLY IN FIELD AT SP8455 1415 (B4).
SEWER PIPE CUT THROUGH A NUMBER OF HOUSE PLATFORMS FRONTING A STREET LYING TO THE N. NO STRUCTURES NOTED BUT MUCH MED POTTERY RECOVERED (B6).
POSS FURTHER AREA OF SETTLEMENT REMAINS N OF CANAL. PRE-ENCLOSURE MAP SHOWS A LARGE IRREGULAR AREA BOUNDED BY SMALL FIELDS, WHICH COINCIDES WITH 'WORLD'S END GREEN' SHOWN ON JEFFERY'S 1788 MAP OF BUCKS (B7).
AYLESBURY NORTHERN LINK ROAD ASSESSMENT HAS PICKED UP IRREGULARITIES, POSSIBLY HOUSE PLATFORMS AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE SITE. FURTHER WORK IS NEEDED TO CLARIFY THE REMAINS (B8).
1st edition 1-inch OS map shows 'Worldsend Green' south of the canal, with buildings lying either side of a track (now Ivy Lane) running towards Puttenham. Area shown coincides with earthworks (B9).
Walkover survey carried out by RPS Clouston in July 1998 confirmed the presence of settlement earthworks in field 3 and ridge and furrow earthworks in field 10. See report for detail (B10).
Evaluation trial trenching carried out by Oxford Archaeology in September 2011 in RPS' field 3, identified remains of ridge and furrow cultivation across the field and a 0.3m thick layer of limestone rubble and roof tile fragments in trench 3. None of the surviving earthworks or recorded cropmarks were found to correspond to excavated features, and it is suggested that these relate to post-medieval or modern cultivation and that the focus of settlement lay to the south of the canal. See report for detail (B11).

A shrunken settlement of medieval date is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located north of Oak Farm, Broughton, and centred at SP 84658 14150. The area to the north of Oak Farm is located in a gap between areas of ridge and furrow field systems and contains linear ditches, of possible plot or field boundaries and routeways, and raised earthworks of probable building platforms visible on lidar visualisations. Some areas around the earthworks have become less well defined and others have been obscured by the construction of farm buildings in the late 20th century. Some of the features can be identified by lines of trees, but not forming boundaries, on historic mapping. The northernmost extent of the area has been redeveloped for housing since 2017 and was investigated in advance of this; no evidence of medieval settlement was recorded. The construction of the canal in 1814 would have disrupted existing field boundaries as well as the inclosure of the parish of Bierton in 1780 and may be why these features fell out of use and are not shown on historic mapping. Earthworks closer to the Oak Farm, south of the canal, are more characteristic of plot boundaries, house platforms and a trackway, that may be associated with the settlement at World's End Green, shown on the Ordnance Surveyors’ Drawing of Aylesbury. Other ditches may be later field boundaries or drainage ditches; the underlying geology is Gault Upper Greensand Formation and the soils loamy and clayey with impeded drainage. (18-24)