Monument record 0221500000 - LECKHAMSTEAD CHURCH (183M S)

Dimensions - Length 60m, Width 45m.
Plan Form - Linear.
Battery, on hilltop. Single ditch & rampart, faces W; slight return at each end (B1).
Strongest part of bank c2.5m above ditch. No trace of a structure in angle. Work complete, but for levelling, N bank visible on APs? Looks identical to battery at Cornbury, Oxon. NGR to site; 1:2500 survey filed (B3).

A C shaped bank and ditch of 17th century date are visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located south of the church at South End, Leckhampstead, and centred at SP 72544 37790. The longest side is on the west and runs approximately north to south and measures 42m in length, the north side 36min length and runs towards the east and the southern side 16m; the ditch runs around the outside of the earthworks. It is approximately 60m north of a lower, longer bank and ditch around the whole area of raised ground (see MBC7635). (9-13)