Monument record 0256200000 - GORRELL FARM, BIDDLESDEN

FORMER HAMLET, NOW A FARM (AT NGR). 'DECAYED HAMLET' C.1755 (B1-2).
AP SHOWS EARTHWORKS, BOUNDARY DITCHES & TRACKWAYS AROUND PRESENT FARM (B3).
FIELD VISIT FOUND HOUSE PLATFORMS, 2 PRONOUNCED HOLLOW WAYS, & SOME LESS WELL PRESERVED EARTHWORKS (MORE DETAILS, CAS CARD)(B4).

Probable medieval deserted settlement earthworks are visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located immediately north of Gorrell Farm and centred at SP 66155 38400, the main features are two contiguous large subrectangular ditched enclosures, surrounded on three sides by medieval ridge and furrow cultivation earthworks. The west-most subrectangular enclosure ditch varies between 2.5 and 6 metres wide and is about 60 x 58 metres at its widest points, within which two sides have earthwork banks on the west and south facing sides and a possible circular pit or pond about 6 metres in diameter. Contiguous to the east, the second enclosure is subrectangular varies between 2.3 and 5.5 metres wide and is about 80 x 50 metres at its widest points. Running W-E across both enclosures about one-third of the way from the N end is a sloping scarp. To the SE are two probable irregularly shaped platforms, along with a 2 metres wide and 26 metres section of ditch flanked on either side by banks, aligned W-E, that may have served as trackways or hollow ways (6-7).