Find Spot record 0001900001 - CHURCH HILL, WEST WYCOMBE

Summary

Iron Age pottery found after gravedigging on Church Hill

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

Iron Age A sherds found 1963-6 in spoil from churchyard graves, mostly by C Saunders (B7); also a few C13-C14 sherds (B6).
Material accessioned in 1963 includes 3 bases, 1 rim shouldered jar, 2 handles, all flint-gritted & of early pre-Roman Iron Age date (B9).
2 Iron Age sherds found in hillfort, April 1991, by Angus Wainwright, NT (B11).

Sources (14)

  • ---SBC17197 Aerial Photograph: AER A49251. SU\827949. Yes.
  • ---SBC17551 Aerial Photograph: 26/06/82. BCM A6/16 16A. SU\828949. Yes.
  • ---SBC17844 Aerial Photograph: 21/06/49. CUC CN 37. SU\828949. Yes.
  • <1>SBC2216 Article in serial: Rev W J Burgess. 1848. 'ANTIQUITIES OF THE CHILTERN HILLS', IN RECS OF BUCKS 1 P23.
  • <2>SBC20350 Bibliographic reference: A Hadrian Allcroft. 1908. Earthwork of England. pp134, 165, 167, Fig 51.
  • <3>SBC13286 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1856 1 P76;1889 6 P250(R.GIBBS:STATE OF THE BUCKS PARISH CHURCHES IN THE C16TH & C17TH.
  • <4>SBC15483 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 P139.
  • <5>SBC12841 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 1 PP318-319.
  • <6>SBC11812 Bibliographic reference: PEVSNER N 1960 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PP287-289 PLS20A-20 B.
  • <7>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.
  • <8>SBC14000 Scheduling record: HBMC. 1961. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS: BUCKS 80.
  • <9>SBC4984 Bibliographic reference: FARLEY M E FEB 1981.
  • <10>SBC3201 Unpublished document: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MUSEUM & CHURCH 1963-1964 ( FILED)..
  • <11>SBC16357 Verbal communication: 1991. WAINWRIGHT A (NATIONAL TRUST) SEPT 1991.

Location

Grid reference SU 8276 9498 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • SHERD (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Event - Intervention: Disturbed finds (EBC10091)
  • Event - Intervention: Surface finds (EBC1299)

Record last edited

May 20 2022 12:52PM

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