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

Archaeological Notification Area: Bronze Age burnt mounds found by fieldwalking (DBC9240)
Local Heritage List 4744: CSG 85 (DBC10792)

Map

Find a placename, postcode or grid reference

Map layers

Base layers

Info

Record list

Tools

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.

[Former interpretation] A Roman oven was discovered in 1918, in the middle of a meadow at Chalfont St Giles [SU 9893]. (B2)

No further information (B8).
NRHE Insert 1998 - update 1997 (B9).

Sources (11)

<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SBC1507 Unpublished document: BCM CASS NO 1597.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SBC11216 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator.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SBC20011 Unpublished document: Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. 2001.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.
<7>SBC27450 Bibliographic reference: Eleanor Scott. 1993. A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain.
<8>SBC28244 Verbal communication: N K Blood. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 NKB 20-AUG-74.
<9>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).
<10>SBC28422 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1923. OS 25" map, 1923.
<11>SBC28319 Digital archive: Ordnance Survey. 1923. Ordnance Survey Object Name Book 1923.

Location

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

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (2)

Related Events/Activities (2)

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

Record last edited

Nov 24 2025 11:34AM