Monument record 0001802001 - DESBOROUGH CASTLE

Summary

Possible Saxon moot mound under Desborough Castle ditch recorded in field survey

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  • Ancient Monument 1020863: DESBOROUGH CASTLE

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Type and Period (1)

  • MOOT? (Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Height 0001 m Radius 0012
DESBOROUGH WAS HEAD OF THE HUNDRED TO WHICH IT GAVE ITS NAME (B2).
MOUND (02:000) POSSIBLY RE USED AS HUNDRED MOUND. MAY BE SIGNIFICANT THAT THIS WAS PARTIALLY DESTROYED BY THE LATER RINGWORK (B17).
Discussion of two 18th century maps with evidence reinforcing interpretation of an existing hillfort presumably re-used as the hundredal meeting place (B23).

Sources (3)

  • <2>SBC4305 Article in serial: R S Downs. 1883. 'DESBOROUGH CASTLE', IN RECS OF BUCKS 5. Vol 5.
  • <17>SBC3093 Article in serial: Mark Collard. 1988. 'EXCAVATIONS AT DESBOROUGH CASTLE, HIGH WYCOMBE, 1987', IN RECS OF BUCKS 30 PP15-41 (& SEE SOUTH MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGY 18 PP28-29). Vol 30.
  • <23>SBC25142 Article in serial: Michael Farley. 2016. 'The Probable Hillfort at Desborough, and a Hundredal Meeting Place Revisited', in Recs of Bucks 56 pp143-144. Vol 56.

Location

Grid reference SU 84648 93326 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13950)

Record last edited

Mar 20 2019 6:56PM

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