Monument record 0163000000 - STOKE PARK

Summary

Possible Bronze Age round barrow in Stoke Park - Bowl barrow in Stoke Park. It is 29 metres in diameter and 2.5m high with a ditch extant on the northwest and southwest sides to a maximum depth of 0.3 metres. A Bronze Age cinerary urn found in 1911 may have come form this barrow.

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  • Archaeological Notification Area: Earthworks of Bronze Age barrow in Stoke Park (DBC9325)
  • Scheduled Monument 1009477: BOWL BARROW IN STOKE PARK PLAYING FIELD, 400M SOUTH OF STOKE PARK HOUSE (DBC7093)

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  • ROUND BARROW (ROUND BARROW:DITCHED, Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)

Description

Dimensions - Radius 14m, Height 2m.
Plan Form - CIRCULAR
LARGE MOUND IN GRASS PLAYING FIELD, FORMERLY PART OF GOLF COURSE. VERY LIKELY A ROUND BARROW - BRONZE AGE CREMATION (01:000) FOUND IN OR NEAR BARROW (B3,B5-9).
EROSION DUE TO CYCLES ETC. OTHER FEATURES (RINGS ETC?) VISIBLE IN AP'S, BUT IN GRASS (B7-9).
SURVEY AT 1:50; REPORT & PHOTOS (B8).
SCHEDULED: SAM 19049 (B6).
Site visit in 1997 highlighted discrepancy in the published dates given for the discovery of the Bronze Age Cremation urn. According to the archives of the Stoke Poges Golf Club, the golf course was commenced in 1908 and finished in 1909. Hence construction would have been finished by January 1911 when the burial was said to have been found during the construction of the 13th hole (B10).
The site survives to 2m high and has a well-preserved ditch. Unfortunately it was heavily impacted by BMX and motorcyles riders. In Spring 1991, followng a large scale contour survey by BCM, the badly eroded areas were protected with extra topsoil and Techturf (B11).
Assessment of historical and landscape context included in management plan for Stoke Park (B12).



There is a tumulus at the SW corner of Stoke Park (now leases as Stoke Poges Golf course) (B13)

In 1911 an inverted cinerary urn,LBA(a), was found a foot down in gravel when a bunker was being made at the 13th hole. It is now in the County Museum (B1), Acc No 73.11 (B14)

At SU 9703 8222 is a bowl barrow, turf and bush covered, located in a recreation ground at the summit of a gentle S facing slope. It measures c29.0m in overall diameter and 2.5m high with a ditch extant on the NW and SW sides, maximum depth c 0.3m.
All traces of the former golf course has been removed. The Secretary of Stoke Poges Golf Club, Commander Wates, is not in possession of a plan of the original layout, but states from memory that the 13th hole was in the vicinity of the mound. He was unaware of the urn's discovery.
Published survey (25") revised (a). (B15)

NRHE Insert 1998, update 2011 (B16).

Sources (22)

  • ---SBC17562 Aerial Photograph: 01/03/64. BKS (1290) 924026. SU\970822.
  • ---SBC17563 Aerial Photograph: 01/03/64. BKS (1290) 924045. SU\970822.
  • ---SBC17564 Aerial Photograph: 01/03/64. BKS (1290) 924046. SU\970822.
  • ---SBC20104 Photograph: RCHME. 1953. Note of photo of Stoke Poges Barrows in NMR Red Boxes.
  • <1>SBC1776 Article in serial: 1911. BOOKER R P L 1911 'URN BURIAL AT STOKE POGES', IN RECS OF BUCKS 10. Vol 10.
  • <2>SBC948 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER 1911.
  • <3>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume 1. Volume 1. p290.
  • <4>SBC6246 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. Early Man in South Buckinghamshire. pp61,166.
  • <5>SBC11172 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 98 SE 04 (FILED).
  • <6>SBC14001 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1992. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS.
  • <7>SBC2795 Verbal communication: CHADWICK P R (BERKS C C) (AP'S HELD AT PLANNING DEPT, SLOUGH CORPORATION).
  • <8>SBC2461 Bibliographic reference: CAS CARD 1630.
  • <9>SBC2345 Bibliographic reference: CARSTAIRS MR PHILIP (OXFORD UNIV. IN-SERVICE STUDE NT) DEC 1984.
  • <10>SBC20102 Unpublished document: Mike Farley and Ralph Pickering. 1997. Report of site visit made to barrow at Stoke Poges Golf Course.
  • <11>SBC20103 Bibliographic reference: Paul Frodsham. 1991. Monument Management in Berkshire. pp64-65.
  • <12>SBC22716 Unpublished document: Land Use Consultants & Rees Bolter Architects. 2005. Stoke Park Conservation Management Plan.
  • <13>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p303.
  • <14>SBC27650 Digital archive: VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION - Bucks Co. Museum Bronze Age Index.
  • <B14a>SBC28280 Verbal communication: C H Read (British Museum). Verbal communication from C H Read (British Museum).
  • <15>SBC28278 Verbal communication: J R Linge. 1974. Field Investigators Comments- F1 JRL 12-AUG-74.
  • <15a>SBC28279 Verbal communication: A S Phillips. 1969. Verbal communication from A S Philips - 14.5.69.
  • <16>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 97025 82223 (51m by 50m)
Civil Parish STOKE POGES, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC16308)

Record last edited

Nov 19 2025 9:35AM

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