Monument record 0188900000 - HILLSIDE, MARLOW

Summary

Possible Late Iron Age to Roman settlement suggested at Marlow - Much Romano British pottery and quern fragments found in gravel pit in 1934.

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (2)

  • SETTLEMENT? (Late Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Description

RB SHERDS & BUILDING MATERIALS, DESCRIBED ONLY AS FROM SITE AT MARLOW (B1) BUT SIMILAR ROMAN POTTERY MARKED 'HILLSIDE' & 'MARLOW BOTTOM' & BELGIC MATERIAL ALSO FROM HILLSIDE, SUGGEST PROBABLE LOCATION OF ABOVE (B2-4).
PHOTO OF 'HILLSIDE GRAVEL PIT' SHOWS 3 ?BELGIC PITS IN SECTION (B5).


(SU 847873) Much Romano-British pottery and quern fragments recovered from a gravel pit in 1934. (B7)

The gravel pit is filled in and the site occupied by a housing estate and waste ground. No further finds are reported from the area (B8).

NRHE Update 1999 (B9).

Sources (9)

  • <1>SBC907 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER (& SEE CORRESPONDENCE, FILED).
  • <2>SBC6054 Bibliographic reference: HAMBLEDEN MUSEUM LOAN COLLECTION (MATERIAL LISTED BY MRS B M HURMAN 1978).
  • <3>SBC11119 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 88 NW 04 (FILED).
  • <4>SBC45 Bibliographic reference: A R PIKE DEC 1978 & FIELD VISIT, JAN 1980.
  • <5>SBC11861 Bibliographic reference: PHOTOS & DRAWINGS (FROM HAMBLEDEN MUSEUM) (FILED).
  • <6>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8. p32.
  • <7>SBC27665 Cartographic materials: W A Smallcomb. Annotated Map.
  • <8>SBC27666 Verbal communication: N K Blood. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 NKB 22-JUL-74.
  • <9>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference SU 847 873 (point)
Civil Parish MARLOW, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Event - Intervention: Disturbed find (EBC10015)
  • Event - Intervention: Disturbed find (EBC16578)

Record last edited

Jul 25 2025 3:54PM

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