Monument record 0174500000 - PITSTONE QUARRY

Summary

Early Iron Age settlement recorded in excavation

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (1)

  • SETTLEMENT (Early Iron Age - 700 BC to 401 BC)

Description

POSTHOLES, STORAGE PITS, OVENS &C BELONGING TO EARLY IRON AGE SETTLEMENT (REPORT & PLANS FILED) (BI1). PITSTONE MATERIAL COMPARED WITH IVINGHOE BEACON. MANY CATTLE BONES NOTED. OCCUPATION DATED TO C6BC (BI4). NGR FROM EXCAVATOR (BI6). MAIN FEATURE A POST-BUILT LONGHOUSE. OTHER POSTHOLES AGRICULTURAL? (BI10)

Sources (10)

  • <1>SBC8144 Bibliographic reference: MANSHEAD MAGAZINE 1962(DEC) 10 PP7-12.
  • <2>SBC8145 Bibliographic reference: MANSHEAD MAGAZINE 1963(DEC) 12 P24.
  • <3>SBC13394 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1961-65 17 PP 205, 305, 412.
  • <4>SBC3220 Bibliographic reference: COTTON MA & FRERE SS 1968 IVINGHOE BEACON EXCAVATI ONS, IN RECSOFBUCKS"18P202,235-249".
  • <5>SBC10876 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SP 91 SW 22 (ON CAS FILE).
  • <6>SBC8246 Verbal communication: MATTHEWS L 1977(MAY) PERS COMM.
  • <7>SBC7435 Verbal communication: LEVY D 1977(15 JULY) PERS COMM.
  • <8>SBC6527 Bibliographic reference: HURMAN B 1980(APRIL) NOTES, SUBSEQUENT TO HER WEA CLASS AT PITSTONE.
  • <9>SBC1050 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER, 1970.
  • <10>SBC4425 Bibliographic reference: DUNGWORTH D 1991 PITSTONE: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARIS H SURVEY PP41-50,PL 3:12-13(COPY IN CAS FILE 2746.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 9482 1468 (160m by 170m)
Civil Parish PITSTONE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (6)

Related Events/Activities (3)

  • Event - Intervention: (EBC11622)
  • Event - Intervention: (EBC1163)
  • Event - Survey: (EBC13891)

Record last edited

Oct 4 2004 11:10AM

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