Monument record 0209900000 - NORTH OF DORNEY REACH

Summary

Cropmarks north of Dorney Reach showed a probable late prehistoric landscape, partly destroyed during building of M40

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  • Planning Notification Area: Late Prehistoric cropmark complex

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Type and Period (1)

  • SETTLEMENT? (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

COMPLEX OF CROP MARKS IN FIELD INCLUDES FIELD SYSTEM, SETTLEMENT & TRACKWAYS, ?IRON AGE, & LONG BARROW & ?PIT ALIGNMENT. LARGE PART OF AREA DESTROYED BY M4 CONSTRUCTION IN 1970, WITH NO EXAMINATION. NO FINDS MADE IN PLAYING FIELD SOUTH OF M4 OR WASTELAND TO NORTH (B1-5).
CROPMARKS PLOTTED AT 1:2500 (B3-4).
RCHME CROPMARK PLOT (B6).

Sources (18)

  • ---SBC17939 Aerial Photograph: 17/06/57. CUC VF 58. SU\915796. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17953 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 11. \. Yes.
  • ---SBC17954 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 13. \. Yes.
  • ---SBC17955 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 14. SU\914795. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17956 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 19. \. Yes.
  • ---SBC17958 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 20. SU\914796. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17959 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 21. \. Yes.
  • ---SBC17960 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 22. \. Yes.
  • ---SBC17961 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 23. SU\915796. Yes. Yes.
  • ---SBC17962 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP 24. SU\915795. Yes. Yes.
  • <1>SBC5573 Bibliographic reference: GATES T 1975 MIDDLE THAMES VALLEY P47.
  • <2>SBC11157 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 97 NW 48 (FILED).
  • <3>SBC3473 Graphic material: Denise Allen (BCM). 1979. AP PLOT (FILED).
  • <4>SBC2399 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1986. The Dorney Study: An Archaeological Implications Report.
  • <5>SBC2470 Bibliographic reference: CAS CARD 2099..
  • <6>SBC13178 Unpublished document: RCHM(E). 1995. The Thames Valley Project: a Report for the National Mapping Programme.
  • <7>SBC23405 Article in serial: Hugo Lamdin-Whymark and Darko Maricevic. 2009. 'On the survey of a Neolithic oval barrow at Dorney Reach', in Recs of Bucks 49 pp1-7. Vol 49.
  • <8>SBC23667 Unpublished document: Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. 2010. Watching Brief: Trumpers Field, Meadow Way, Dorney Reach.

Location

Grid reference SU 91450 79550 (point)
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Aerial photography (EBC11902)

Record last edited

Apr 4 2018 4:04PM

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