Monument record 0228900000 - PASTURE FARM, DINTON

Dimensions - Length 0070 m Width 0070
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
FEATURE ENCLOSED ON E BY HOLLOW WAY & S BY 3 FISHPONDS(?) SEEN ON A/P'S. FIELD VISIT: LOOKS LIKE WALL FOOTINGS(?) OF GREAT HOUSE (FOR WHICH THERE IS NO OBVIOUS EVIDENCE. WHOLE COMPLEX OF FEATURES LOOKS OUT OF PROPORTION TO EXTANT BUILDING & COULD BE GARDENS OF LARGER DEMOLISHED HOUSE (NB CASS 002288) (B1).
Aerial photogaphs taken in 1996 show that the site is more extensive than previously thought and there are indications of additonal buildings (B3).

A medieval shrunken settlement is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located across closes east of Pasture Farmhouse and Wallace Farm and centred at SP 77251 11082, the earthworks comprise a complex of sinuous interconnecting ditches up to 14 metres wide, these being either boundary ditches, trackways or hollow ways. Abutting these are a number of rectilinear earthwork platforms of various sizes, from 64 x 32 metres to 7 x 9 metres. Also visible are a number of probable linear and subcircular fishponds. In the west part of the settlement are linear and L shaped narrow earthworks banks, suggesting the possible subsurface foundation walls of former buildings, as well as more amorphous mounds and hollows (4-6).