Monument record 0159700000 - CSG 85

Summary

Site discovered in 1918 and thought to be Roman ovens but reinterpreted as probable Bronze Age burnt mounds

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Bronze Age burnt mounds found by fieldwalking

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Type and Period (1)

  • SITE (Late Neolithic to 5th Century Roman - 2500 BC to 409 AD)

Description

1918 DISCOVERY OF ROMAN OVENS (02:000)(B2).
MARKED ON OS MAPS AS HEARTHS 1925 (B1).
FIELDWALKING IN 1978 PRODUCED ROMAN CERAMICS (B1). (02:001/ 002/003) INDICATING ROMAN SITE ?VILLA. (02:000) VISIT BY MEF IDENTIFIED SITES AS BURNT MOUNDS (B4). (01:000) & NO EVIDENCE OF ROMANS, IN E-S OF FIELD.

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC1507 Unpublished document: BCM CASS NO 1597.
  • <2>SBC6870 Article in serial: JOURNAL OF BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION NO.2 4. 1918.P279. REFERING TO REPORT IN DAILY CHRONIC.
  • <3>SBC11216 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD SU 99 SE 17.
  • <4>SBC5187 Verbal communication: FARLEY M E DEC 1984, PERS COMM FOLLOWING SITE VISIT.
  • <5>SBC14693 Article in serial: Simon Smithson. 1984. 'THE BURNT MOUNDS OF CHALFONT ST GILES: A SURVEY', IN RECS OF BUCKS 26 PP113-116. Vol 26.
  • <6>SBC20011 Unpublished document: Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. 2001. Chilterns Chalk Streams Project: Chess & Misbourne Valleys - Archaeological Assessment.

Location

Grid reference SU 98630 94650 (point)
Civil Parish CHALFONT ST. GILES, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC13338)
  • Event - Survey: Field visit (EBC16781)

Record last edited

Nov 29 2021 2:57PM

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