Monument record MBC48608 - DITCHED ENCLOSURE CROPMARKS, EYTHROPE

Probable Iron Age and/or Roman conjoined ditched enclosures are visible on historic aerial photographs as cropmarks and were mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located in a field about 790 metres NE of Eythrope and centred at SP 77863 14415, a rectilinear ditch up to 1.5 metres wide forms an enclosure about 14.5 metres N-S and 16 metres W-E. Conjoined to its southern boundary is a second rectilinear ditch about 16 metres N-S and 15 metres W-E. Centred some 23 metres S of this is a subcircular enclosure ditch up to 2 metres wide that encloses an internal area about 17 metres at its widest point. A curving ditch extends S for 30 metres and terminates in a large irregularly shaped macula cropmark. Three scattered pits around the enclosures may be associated (1).

Faint cropmarks of a number of conjoined rectilinear enclosures and one, possibly two curvilinear enclosures possibly the remains of a settlement of uncertain date located at c.SP 7786 1445. All enclosures are defined by single ditches and may represent at least two phases of activity. The faint cropmark traces of medieval ridge and furrow can be seen thoughout the field, exteding through the cropmark enclosures (2).
This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence (3).