Monument record 0251500000 - PARK WOOD

Summary

Thirteenth to fourteenth century house platform recorded in field survey

Protected Status/Designation

Ancient Monument BU137: Earthworks in Park Wood

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Type and Period (3)

FARMSTEAD (13th Century to 14th Century - 1200 AD to 1399 AD)
HOUSE (13th Century to 14th Century - 1200 AD to 1399 AD)
HOUSE PLATFORM (13th Century to 14th Century - 1200 AD to 1399 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0950 cm Width 0500
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
EARTHWORKS FOUND IN PARK WOOD FOUND BY D BARKER, 1976. SLIGHT TERRACE BUILT INTO HILLSIDE WITH BUILT UP PLATFORM WITH SUNKEN CENTRE, PROBABLY COLLAPSED FLINT BUILDING. ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES, INTERPRETED AS OUTHOUSE, WELL & DOVECOT? FINDS SUGGEST C13-C14. FARMSTEAD OR KEEPERS LODGE? (B1-6). SURVEY (B3).
The focus of the site is a rectangular mound of flints measuring 17m long by 11m wide. It has a central depression with the flints mounded round the outer edge, corresponding with the outline of a collapsed building. The smaller mound to the south, once interpreted as a dovecote, is now thought to be a flint waste dump. Surrounding features may be unconnected. There is a platform of some kind, quarries, sawpits and charcoal platforms (B10).
Trench excavated through mound in the NE corner. 3 sherds of medieval pottery, and 11 fragments of handmade rooftile were recovered (B11).
Iron slag fragments reported by John Morris in 2007 (B12).

Sources (12)

<1>SBC9275 Graphic material: MR D BARKER & M E FARLEY OCT 1976 (SKETCH PLAN FIL ED).
<2>SBC9274 Bibliographic reference: MR D BARKER & M E FARLEY DEC 1976 FIELD VISIT.
<3>SBC434 Graphic material: ANNE COOKSON JAN 1980 SURVEY, PLAN & DESCRIPTION (F ILED & HUNG).
<4>SBC3175 Bibliographic reference: COOKSON A 1979 A MEDIEVAL HOMESTEAD AT PARK WOOD, BRADENHAM, BUCKS, RECSOFBUCKS21PP98-115".
<5>SBC13977 Scheduling record: DoE. 1980. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS: SAM NO 137 (BUCKS).
<6>SBC11144 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 89 NW 13 (JAN 1982, FILED).
<7>SBC9277 Bibliographic reference: MR D BARKER & M E FARLEY, MAY 1977, MARCH 1978 & J UNE 1979.
<8>SBC9276 Graphic material: MR D BARKER & M E FARLEY OCT 1979 (SKETCH LOCATION PLAN & SLIDES OF FINDS FILED).
<9>SBC8254 Unpublished document: WL Matthews & Angus Wainwright. 1990. NATIONAL TRUST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY: BRADENHAM.
<10>SBC22843 Unpublished document: National Trust. 2006. Bradenham Woods Historic Landscape Survey. p6-7.
<11>SBC25097 Unpublished document: Gary Marshall. 2018. Report describing the excavation of an evaluation trench at the Medieval Homestead in Park Wood, Bradenham.
<12>SBC25143 Unpublished document: John Morris, Chiltern Woodlands Project. 2007. Iron Working sites/iron slag finds.

Location

Grid reference	SU 82650 98150 (point)
Civil Parish	BRADENHAM, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (2)

Event - Survey: Bradenham Woods Historic Landscape Survey (EBC16772)
Event - Interpretation: Trial trench evaluation dug across features in Park Wood, Bradenham (Ref: ENA8970) (EBC18081)

Record last edited

Mar 21 2019 1:25PM