Monument record 0025600000 - STOCKHOLT FARM

Summary

Earthworks of a deserted medieval settlement noted on aerial photographs, cannot be seen on the ground

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Type and Period (1)

DESERTED SETTLEMENT? (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)

Description

POSSIBLE ENCLOSURES &/OR HOUSE PLATFORMS VISIBLE ON AP (WITHIN AREA PLOTTED ON CAS 6IN RECORD MAP)(B2). HOWEVER FIELD VISIT FEB 1977 FOUND THE WHOLE AREA UNDER PLOUGH & NOTHING VISIBLE ON THE GROUND. NGR TO FARM (B3).

An area of shrunken settlement of medieval date is/are visible on historic aerial photographs as earthworks and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located at Stockholt Farm, Akeley, and centred at SP 70175 38370. Earthworks of possible boundaries and ditches are visible on 1940s aerial photographs but land use changed to arable between 1961 and 1968 and the area has been ploughed level. The Whittlewood Project fieldwalked the fields around the farm and recorded medieval pottery, associated with the site of a manor here at the time. Test pitting within the parish was only undertaken within the village. (6-14)

Sources (14)

<1>SBC20463 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1927. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume IV. Volume 4. pp144-146.
<2>SBC468 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. AP 1946 (OCT) RAF (RUN 20, PRINT 4181, AT BCM).
<3>SBC508 Bibliographic reference: ARP 1977 (FEB) FIELD VISIT.
<4>SBC2326 Article in serial: L M Cantor and J Hatherly. 1977. 'THE MEDIEVAL PARKS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE', in Records of Buckinghamshire 20. Vol 20 part 3. p446 & fig 2.
<5>SBC18808 Aerial Photograph: 01/10/47. RAF 20.4181. SP\702384. Yes.
<6>SBC26394 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1946. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/86 RV 6011 26-Mar-1946.
<7>SBC26412 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1792 RS 4181 11-Oct-1946.
<8>SBC26397 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1947. RAF/CPE/UK/2097 RP 3174 28-May-1947.
<9>SBC26450 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1961. RAF-543-1426 2F41 355 28-Aug-1961.
<10>SBC26451 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1968. OS-68291 V 136 22-Aug-1968.
<11>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP7038 Environment Agency 1m DTM Composite 2017-2019 date accessed 25-Feb-2020.
<12>SBC26436 Digital archive: Jones, Richard. 2003. Whittlewood Project: Akeley: Shovel Test Pits. date accessed 16-Aug-2023.
<13>SBC26452 Digital archive: Jones, Richard. 2003. Whittlewood project: Report on Test Pits in and around Akeley village: June-August 2002. date accessed 16-Aug-2023.
<14>SBC26404 Bibliographic reference: Jones, Richard. 2004. Signatures in the Soil: The Use of Pottery in Manure Scatters in the Identification of Medieval Farming Regimes in The Archaological Journal. Vol 161 Issue 1 pp159-188. date accessed 16-Aug-2023.

Location

Grid reference	SP 70140 38360 (point)
Civil Parish	AKELEY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire