Monument record 0154400000 - BAPSEY FIELD, TAPLOW

Summary

Possible Iron Age hillfort earthworks identified within old churchyard and in Bapsey Field.

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  • HILLFORT? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

LINEAR EARTHWORKS IN BAPSEY FIELD MARKED ON MAP AS 'BRITISH CAMP - REMAINS OF' (B1).
IN 1853, ON DEMOLITION OF OLD CHURCH (CASS 01543), REMAINS OF OLD DITCH SEEN RUNNING N-S, WHICH RUTLAND BELIEVED WAS INNER DITCH OF CAMP (B2-3).
IRON AGE POTTERY FROM BARROW (CASS 01542) & CRICKET FIELD (CASS 01561) (B4).

Sources (11)

  • <1>SBC10336 Map: OS 1900 2ND EDITION 6 INCH MAP.
  • <2>SBC20460 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1905. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume I. Volume 1. p199.
  • <3>SBC13845 Bibliographic reference: RUTLAND MS NOTEBOOK, IN BRO (REF: D/X/748/9).
  • <4>SBC8556 Bibliographic reference: MILLER D & D AUG 1985 FIELD VISIT & REPORT (FILED).
  • <5>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p294.
  • <6>SBC3183 Bibliographic reference: COPP A & ROYLE C APRIL 1987 REPORT ON THE SURVEYS CONDUCTED AT TAPLOW COURT (MANUSCRIPT, FILED).
  • <7>SBC11181 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 98 SW 06 (FILED).
  • <8>SBC19197 Unpublished document: Mark Ward. 1997. The Archaeology of Taplow Court, South Buckinghamshire In Association With A Geophysical Survey.
  • <9>SBC22540 Unpublished document: Marlow Archaeological Society. 2005. Taplow Court: Fieldwork Record Drawings - Survey & Resistivity October 2005.
  • <10>SBC22946 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2007. Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire: Draft Publication Report.
  • <11>SBC23605 Bibliographic reference: Tim Allen, Chris Hayden & Hugo Lamdin-Whymark. 2009. From Bronze Age Enclosure to Anglo-Saxon Settlement: Archaeological Excavations at Taplow Hillfort.

Location

Grid reference SU 90810 82110 (point)
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Oct 13 2024 4:27PM

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