Monument record 0259700000 - SOUTH END, LECKHAMPSTEAD house platforms and trackways

PART OF SHRUNKEN VILLAGE OF LIMES END MANOR (B3).
HOUSE PLATFORMS VISIBLE ON APS (B1).
UP TO 6 PLATFORMS IN FIELD S OF ROAD BETWEEN HOME & MIDDLE FARMS, WITH ASSOCIATED TRACKWAYS. PATTERN LESS OBVIOUS N SIDE OF ROAD (SEE CASS CARD); POSS QUARRYING HERE (B3). WELL PRESERVED BACK STREET (B3).
387 sherds of pottery were recovered during fieldwalking in the field north of the road. The concentrations of medieval pottery were found in the south of the field where the back boundary of the tofts and house platforms are clearly visible on aerial photographs. There is also a clear, linear discolouration in the soil passing through the centre of the field on an axis between Wetherhead Farm and Home Farm which reveals the back boundary of the tofts. The thin scatters of Romano-British pottery indicates that this was ploughland (B4).

An area of shrunken settlement of medieval date is visible on historic aerial photographs as extant earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located between Home Farm and Lower Farm (formerly Middle Farm), South End, Leckhampstead, and centred at SP 73082 37128. This area of settlement is visible on both sides of the road between the two farms. On the north of the road, parallel ditches, appear to be the boundaries between narrow plots of land and they run between the road and ridge and furrow earthworks of open fields. To the south of the road there are boundaries again between the road and the start of ridge and furrow field systems to the south. On the south of the road the boundaries around former garden and house plots are more rounded and are visible on Ordnance Survey Epoch 1 map. To the north of the road modern land use has been arable since at least 1993 and to the south of the road modern land use is for paddocks which have been levelled since 2016 and extended further to the south after that. Lidar visualisations show the earthworks were still well preserved at the time. (7-21)