Monument record 0014010001 - PRESTWOOD COMMON

Summary

Historic records and field-name evidence that Grim's Ditch, an Iron Age linear earthwork, probably extended onto Prestwood Common

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Type and Period (1)

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

Description

1850 reference to Prestwood Common & 60 acres at its W end bounded on W by road from Polecat Lane to Honor End & on E by a large bank called Grime's Ditch (B4).
Mr Keen identifies the 60-acre field (centred at NGR). 'Gryms Dyke' estate, mid-C20, now occupies area (& see H B Eaton's work, filed, on possible course) (B12).

Sources (3)

  • <4>SBC664 Unpublished document: 1850. AUCTION ADVERTISEMENT, GREAT MISSENDEN INCLOSURE, NOV 1850.
  • <12>SBC4487 Unpublished document: H B Eaton. 1986. 'GRIM'S DITCH'.
  • <16>SBC19564 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1997. An Archaeological and Management Survey of Grim's Ditch, Buckinghamshire.

Location

Grid reference SP 87200 00500 (point)
Civil Parish GREAT MISSENDEN, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

May 22 2022 3:13PM

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