About this website

Buckinghamshire’s Heritage Portal has 5 main elements:

  • An illustrated database of archaeological and historic sites, finds and buildings in the county which is searchable by simple and advanced text searches and by map searches
  • Local interest packs and lots of additional information
  • Visitor guides to selected sites
  • An illustrated glossary and interactive timeline
  • Teaching packs with additional resources for school children and teachers.

All of these are available free-of-charge to all non-commercial users of the website.

Searching

Find out more about the various search tools here.

Glossary

The glossary helps to explain many of the technical terms you will find in the website.  To view an entry, click on a term from the A-Z list.  In many cases the explanation includes illustrations, links to other terms, more detailed information about a time period, or to records of specific sites in Buckinghamshire.  You can also open up individual glossary terms by clicking on the hyperlinks in the database records.

Timeline

To open the interactive timeline use the Timeline link in the menu bar.  Use the slider to move backwards or forwards through time.  You can hover over each of the period terms for a brief explanation of the period or click for more detailed information about the period.

Teaching Resources and Interactive Games

The teaching packs and teaching resource worksheets have been designed for Key Stages 2 and 3.  The teaching packs are:

  • Iron Age to Victorian changes in the landscape
  • Tudor to Victorian rich and poor
  • Archaeology in local history studies
  • Buckinghamshire in the World Wars
  • Archaeological skills and concepts
  • Putting Buckinghamshire in context 

The interactive games have been developed for schools.  The games are:

  • Timepod
  • Rich and Poor in Tudor Times
  • Victorian Shopping Experience
  • South Buckinghamshire in the War
  • Virtual Excavation. 

The games use Adobe Flash Player, which is no longer supported by most web browsers.  We are trying to get these converted to a different format, but unfortunately the games are currently unavailable - sorry!

Local Interest Packs, Visitor Guides and Additional information

You can get access to the local interest packs, visitor guides and loads of additional information using the Special Features link in the menu bar.  The local interest packs are

  • How to get involved in archaeology
  • How to find historical and archaeological information. 

There are also parish summaries, period overviews, featured sites and ‘thematic essays’ on a host of topics including archaeological techniques, local societies, and recommended reading lists.  The visitor guides are PDF documents that you can download or print off, and include detailed information on a number of sites to visit. The parish summaries use the list of civil parishes following local government reorganisation in 1974; if you can't find the historic or modern parish you are interested in on the list try picking a nearby parish as it may cover your area.

Links

The Links in the menu bar opens a page with hyperlinks to other websites that might be of interest.

Comments and Feedback

You can send us comments and feedback about the website by using the Contact form.  A form for your comments will open up which will be automatically emailed to us when you click the Submit button.  You can also post comments or new information about a specific database record in the Comments section at the bottom of each detailed record.

Accessibility

Information about this website's accessibility is found in our Accessibility Statement.