Monument record 0223600000 - MARLOW

Summary

Possible Neolithic to Bronze Age ring-ditch recorded on aerial photographs and confirmed by geophysical survey.

Protected Status/Designation

Archaeological Notification Area: Cropmark of Prehistoric ring ditch, confirmed by geophysical survey (DBC9300)

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Type and Period (1)

RING DITCH? (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)

Description

Plan Form - CIRCULAR
SINGLE CIRCLE (PLOTTED) (B1).
POSSIBLE RING DITCH VISIBLE ON A/P'S. IT IS, HOWEVER, A SMALL CIRCLE ON GRASSLAND; OTHER SIMILAR MARKS SHOW ON PHOTOS. PERHAPS A FAIRY RING. NOT PLOTTED (B2).
RCHME REPORT (B3).
A detailed gradiometer survey carried out by Wessex Archaeology successfully located numerous anomalies of archaeological interest. The most interesting of these are two concentric annular anomalies appearing to form part of a barrow cemetery with two ring ditches identified by the previous WA geophysical survey. Near the northeastern extent of the survey area a sub-annular anomaly some 12m in diameter is consistent with the response from a roundhouse (B4).

SU 8485 SU 88 NW Area centred SU 844855 MARLOW Single circle. NMR 70 SU 8485/5/108. (1)

The following feature was mapped from good quality air photographs:-

Potential Bronze Age round barrow, seen as a cropmark. Morphological description: a subcircular enclosure, diameter 10m, defined by 1 ditch. Centred at:-SU 8441 8546 (Morph No. TG.502.1.1).

This description has been generated from the RCHME MORPH2 database. The NGR recorded by source (1) is incorrect and has been deleted as a more accurate NGR has been generated in the course of the NMP project. At the time of plotting, there were doubts about the validity of this site, suggesting that it may prove to be a fungus ring on more detailed examination (see the site record form for NGR SU 841 855 in the project archive for SU 88 NW) (B5).

NRHE Input 1997, Update 1999 (B6)

Sources (8)

---SBC17977 Aerial Photograph: 09/07/57. CUC VP29. SU\841855. Yes.
---SBC18629 Aerial Photograph: 19/07/77. NMR SU8485/9/216. SU\842854. Yes.
<1>SBC5571 Bibliographic reference: GATES T 1975 MIDDLE THAMES VALLEY P44 & MAP 25.. p44.
<2>SBC4730 Bibliographic reference: Mike Farley & Denise Allen (BCM). 1979. FARLEY M & ALLEN D 1979 (FROM CAMB.UNIV.& NMR A/P'S AT BCM).
<3>SBC13178 Unpublished document: RCHM(E). 1995. The Thames Valley Project: a Report for the National Mapping Programme.
<4>SBC24221 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2008. Land adjacent to Lower Pound Lane, Marlow, Buckinghamshire: Detailed Gradiometer Survey Report.
<5>SBC27598 Verbal communication: Moraig Brown. 1993. RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment - Moraig Brown/08-MAR-1993/RCHME. AF1030395: RCHME: Thames Valley NMP, SU 88 NW.
<6>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference	Centred SU 84418 85457 (16m by 16m)
Civil Parish	MARLOW, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire