Monument record MBC45327 - Iron Age and/or Roman ditches, Oak Lodge Farm.

Summary

Iron Age and/or Roman ditches and enclosures are visible on historic aerial photographs as cropmarks and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304).

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (3)

  • DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 800 BC? to 409 AD?)
  • DITCH (Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 800 BC? to 409 AD?)
  • LINEAR FEATURE (Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 800 BC? to 409 AD?)

Description

Iron Age and/or Roman ditches and enclosures are visible on historic aerial photographs as cropmarks and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located in a field about 657 metres SE of Oak Lodge Farm and centred at SP 68742 30071, the cropmarks have emerged from under a block of medieval ridge and furrow cultivation earthworks that were only just visible on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s, but which had been entirely levelled by successive post-war ploughing. The cropmarks comprise a linear ditch about 1 metre wide and about 90 metres SSW-NN is connected at the SSW end by a 78 metres long curving ditch aligned WNW-ESE. At the WNW end the ditch curves turns NNW for 31 metres: from the ESE end the ditch curves 18 metres to the N. These connected ditches suggest at least two and possibly three fragmentary contiguous ditched enclosures. To the N, E and SW of these features are isolated sections of linear ditch that suggest an association with the enclosure cropmark features (1-4).

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC26009 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2023. RAF-CPE-UK-2008 RS 4021 16-APR-1947.
  • <2>SBC26010 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2023. RAF-58-4646 F44 0214 28-AUG-1961.
  • <3>SBC25596 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2022. Next Perspectives APGB Imagery. 03-JUL-2015 SP6830.
  • <4>SBC25593 Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. Google Earth Pro. Dated 15-APR-2017.

Location

Grid reference SP 6874 3007 (point)
Civil Parish HILLESDEN, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Aerial investigation and mapping project (Ref: 7768) (EBC18304)

Record last edited

Jan 12 2024 7:08PM

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