Monument record MBC48654 - Extractive pits west of the site of Notley Abbey, Long Crendon

Two probable extractive pits of medieval/post medieval date are visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and were mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located approximately 570m west of the site of Notley Abbey, Long Crendon, and centred at SP 71005 09113. The two small irregular shaped pits are visible as dark soilmarks in an arable field in the 1940s and the lidar visualisations show smoothed earthworks at the same location. The underlying Solid Geology is Portland Stone Formation Limestone, which may have been quarried during the construction of the Abbey and its buildings or afterwards. (1-2)