Monument record 0014007000 - GRIMS DITCH BETWEEN REDLAND END AND HAMPDEN PARK

Summary

Section of probable Iron Age linear earthwork recorded in geophysical survey

Protected Status/Designation

  • Ancient Monument 1021195: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE GRIM'S DITCH: SECTION EXTENDING FROM REDLAND END THROUGH BARNES'S GROVE TO HAMPDEN PARK (DBC7193)
  • Planning Notification Area: Late Prehistoric linear earthworks of Grims Ditch (DBC9166)

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Type and Period (2)

  • BANK (EARTHWORK) (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • DITCH (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

Dimensions - Length 1582m, Height 2m.
Plan Form - Linear.
Stretch from Redland End along edge of Kingsfield Wood. Right angled turn continues ESE-WNW almost to Great Hampden. Ditch flat at corner & little sign of bank - possibly original way through (B1-2).
Marked between NGRs (B3).
Scheduled: SAM No.35336. Scheduling revised February 2004 (B4).
Geophysical survey carried out by the Bartlett-Clark Consultancy in 1998 at Knighton's Hill Wood (SP83850299) produced anomalies possibly representing the ditch whilst documentary research by Network Archaeology confirmed the presence of earthworks forming a corner at this location as shown on the 2nd edition 6" OS map (B17, B19).
6 profiles across earthwork recorded by Network Archaeology in February 1999 (B18).

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC20350 Bibliographic reference: A Hadrian Allcroft. 1908. Earthwork of England. p512.
  • <2>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p163.
  • <3>SBC10400 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1960. OS 1960 6-INCH MAP. 1:10,560.
  • <4>SBC13964 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 2004. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS: SAM 35336.
  • <16>SBC19564 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1997. An Archaeological and Management Survey of Grim's Ditch, Buckinghamshire.
  • <17>SBC19565 Unpublished document: Network Archaeology. 1998. Grim's Ditch Archaeological and Management Survey Phase II. pp2-3,4,7-9, Figs 4,14.
  • <18>XYSBC19566 Unpublished document: Network Archaeology. 1999. Grim's Ditch Archaeological and Management Survey Phase III. pp4,10,Appendix 2,Figs 4,22,23. [Mapped feature: #46111 ]
  • <19>SBC19568 Unpublished document: Alistair Bartlett. 1998. Bartlett A 1998 Grim's Ditch, Buckinghamshire: Report on Archaeogeophysical Survey. pp2-3,4, Plans 3-4.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 84119 02586 (1315m by 781m)
Civil Parish GREAT AND LITTLE HAMPDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Magnetometry and resistivity surveys (EBC16000)

Record last edited

Oct 13 2024 1:32PM

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