Monument record 0017700000 - THORNBOROUGH BRIDGE

Summary

Late Iron Age trackway, Roman roads, house platforms, and finds recorded in excavation, metal-detecting and geophysical survey

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Roman settlement at Thornborough Bridge

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Type and Period (1)

  • SETTLEMENT (Late Iron Age to 1st Century Roman - 100 BC to 99 AD)

Description

EXCAVATIONS & RESISTIVITY SURVEY NEAR SITES OF ROMAN TEMPLE & BARROWS FOUND A TRACKWAY, ROADS & TRACES OF A FORD ON BANKS OF RIVER TWIN. ALSO FOUND: BUILDING PLATFORMS, DITCHES, GULLIES & A CREMATION CEMETERY. TRACK WAS PRE-ROMAN? OTHER FEATURES BUILT C1 AD. NGR TO SITE CENTRE (B5).

Sources (12)

  • ---SBC17638 Aerial Photograph: 17/10/73. CSS 384.7257. SP\729332. Yes.
  • <1>SBC6832 Unpublished document: JOHNSON A E NOTES FOR CBA & DOE (FILED).
  • <2>SBC13525 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1972-3 19 PP 219, 347; BRITANNIA.
  • <3>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Joseph Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. p311.
  • <4>SBC1007 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER 322.76.
  • <5>SBC6831 Article in serial: A E Johnson. 1975. 'EXCAVATIONS AT BOURTON GROUNDS, THORNBOROUGH, 1972-3', IN RECS OF BUCKS 20 PP3-56. Vol 20.
  • <6>SBC17010 Verbal communication: WOOLEY K J JUNE 1975 PERS COMM.
  • <7>SBC164 Aerial Photograph: AERIAL PHOTO BCM A/1/7/34 (COPY AT BCM).
  • <8>SBC6645 Photograph: INFORMATION FROM COPIES OF SLIDES LENT BY MRS SHELAGH LEWIS MAY 1989.
  • <9>SBC14500 Bibliographic reference: SHELLEY D G & WILLIAMS R J (MKAU) SEPT 1990 (SEE CORRESPONDENCE, FILED) (NGR CONFIRMED BY SHELLEY D .
  • <10>SBC6360 Bibliographic reference: HERITAGE G & BABB L M C (BCM) DEC 1991 (ENTRY FORM NO 0483).
  • <11>SBC1766 Unpublished document: BONNER D 1995 REPORT ON WATCHING BRIEF.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 7294 3316 (260m by 30m)
Civil Parish THORNBOROUGH, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (3)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC13218)
  • Event - Intervention: Excavation (EBC10742)
  • Event - Intervention: Excavation (EBC11398)

Record last edited

Oct 18 2024 10:01AM

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