Monument record 0029200000 - MANTLES GREEN MEADOW

Extensive site in field between Back Lane & A413 W of Amersham, also S side of A413 stray finds (:01), evidence of cemetery (:02) late Roman/Saxon. Probably associated with Shardeloes villa, villa itself not precisely located. For other evidence see CAS 01450. Area excavated (:04) 1983-1984.
Buckinghamshire County Museum reports the finding of a crushed, grey-tempered storage jar (10in diameter) with impressed decoration on shoulder by Michael Gibbons during the Amersham By-Pass excavations - thought to have been found in this vicinity (24).
Finds made during the constructionof the Amersham By-Pass in 1985 include a fragment of a late Roman copper-alloy bracelet and a copper-alloy cosmetic mortar in the form of a horned bovid (25).
Evaluation by AS&C in April 2003 at West Lodge found only redeposited Romano-British building material (chalk blocks and brick/tile fragments) possibly disturbed during C19 or C20 building works (26).





In 1955, 1st-4th c pottery was found by T Farrance Davey of the Wick, Hyde Heath, during road-widending operations at the gate of Shardeloes Manor, Lower Amersham. Now in Aylesbury Museum. (Sited to SU 94789787 from tracing supplied) (B1).

About 50 sherds were found, of which a dozen are of Belgic type and the rest RB. Flue tiles and roofing tiles indicate a building (B6).

The finds from Shardeloes also include coins (unspecified) (B3).

Acc Nos of the above finds (not coins); 9.56 and 25.57.
Bucks Co Museum list further finds of pottery and tile extending from approx SU 94709796 to SU 95189758 . Material found (1955) and held by Mr L Elgar Pike (b34) includes: RB tegulae and box tile, RB sherds, 3 Saxon glass beaker sherds and six 3rd-4th c coins. Other finds from this vicinity are held by D Humphries, Chess Valley Arch Soc, and W Howard (b35). (B30)

The extent of these finds suggests more than one Ro building in this vicinity, although D Humphreys (b33) states that no structural remains have yet been found. The heaviest concentration of material so far, including hypocaust and tegulae tile and Samian pottery, has been found by the Chess Valley Arch Soc in area SU 95019761.
Human bones held by Bucks Co Museum were found by workmen in November 1965 in area SU 950977. These were allegedly dated by Dr Oakley of Oxford as Ro, but this cannot be verified and neither can the exact find spot from local information (B31).

NRHE Insert 1997, Update 1998, 1999 (B29).