Monument record 0159701000 - CSG 85

Plan Form - CIRCULAR
2 SLIGHT MOUNDS, COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF BURNT FLINT. NO ROMAN OR OTHER DATING EVIDENCE. MOUNDS PRESUMABLY SAME SITE AS HEARTHS/OVENS (B4). FIELDWALKING AND SURVEY FINDS FEW FLINT TOOLS, BUT INTERPRETATION OF SITE AS BURNT MOUNDS FOR COOKING ETC NOT CONTRADICTED. FULL DETAILS AND SURVEY FILED (B5).



SU 98629463 & 98629469. Hearths (NR) (Site of) (B10)

"Information supplied direct on 6" sheet by Mr T C Cantrill, of HM Geological Survey, who discovered them" (B11).

No further information (B8).

In 1918, the discovery of a `Roman Oven' near Chalfont St Giles was announced in the `Daily Chronicle'. The Ordnance Survey in 1925 recorded two `hearths' in a meadow to the north of the town, one of which is presumed to have been the `oven'.
In 1984, the `hearths' were seen to consist of low mounds of black soil and burnt flint. A survey of these mounds was carried out, coupled with fieldwalking of the area immediately surrounding them. Apart from the two main mounds, there were three further scatters of burnt flints unaccompanied by dark soil. The main mounds, which were up to 40m across, appear to be similar to `burnt mounds' recorded elsewhere. Some 220 worked or struck flints were picked up in the field as a whole, consisting of broken and unbroken waste flakes, end, coarse and denticulated scrapers and others (B5).

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