Monument record 0213500000 - 700M E OF LAPLAND FARM

Summary

Possible trackway with bank, visible as earthworks and possibly following a Saxon estate boundary.

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Type and Period (3)

  • TRACKWAY (Unknown date)
  • BOUNDARY (Unknown date)
  • PARISH BOUNDARY (9th Century - 800 AD? to 899 AD?)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0150 m
Plan Form - L SHAPED
APPROX 150M OF ?TRACK, WITH SLIGHT BANK ON EAST SIDE, RUNS ON PARISH BOUNDARY. A GREEN WAY TRAVERSES IT & THE WHOLE MAY SIMPLY BE A CROSSROADS. COULD THE BEND ON THE FEATURE ENCOMPASS A HOUSE SITE? (B1).
PARISH BOUNDARY POSSIBLY EQUATES TO ANGLO-SAXON ESTATE BOUNDARY AS GIVEN IN CHARTER OF AD 840-52 (B2-3).

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC5616 Verbal communication: 1974. GEORGE W & FARLEY M E SEPT 1974.
  • <2>SBC5594 Bibliographic reference: GELLING M 1979 EARLY CHARTERS OF THE THAMES VALLEY PP184-7..
  • <3>SBC783 Article in serial: Arnold Baines. 1979. 'THE BOUNDARIES OF WOTTON UNDERWOOD', IN RECS OF BUCKS 21 PP141-153. Vol 21.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 6697 1616 (80m by 140m)
Civil Parish WOTTON UNDERWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 28 2019 12:38PM

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