Intercutting Roman pits and ditches discovered in stripping for gas pipeline

Iron Age and Romano-British features and finds recorded during watching brief

Pits and ditches identified during trial trench evaluation.

Site discovered in 1918 and thought to be Roman ovens but reinterpreted as probable Bronze Age burnt mounds

Romano-British features and artefacts found during evaluation trial trenching

Signs of Roman cremation sites found in the nineteenth century

Roman pits, ditches and pottery found during evaluation trial trenching

Roman and medieval ditches found during trial trench evalaution

Roman villa and possible late Roman and Saxon cemetery site at Mantles Green Meadow - Finds including Roman pottery, coins, hypocaust tiles, tegulae and tiles dating from the 1st to 4th centuries together with indications of more than one building were found in the area of Shardeloes Manor, Lower Amersham. Human remains, possibly Roman, and Saxon glass beaker sherds were also found. Excavations have revealed agricultural buildings, corn drier, cobbled yards, roads and iron working activity. The finds suggest a second to mid fourth century date for the site.

Roman villa buildings and finds recorded in excavation