Monument record 0014005000 - GRIM'S DITCH,SW LILYBOTTOM

Summary

Section of probably Iron Age linear earthwork, Grim's Ditch

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  • Ancient Monument 1020886: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE GRIM'S DITCH: 1.02KM LONG SECTION FROM WEST OF WHITE HOUSE FARM TO LILY BANK FARM (DBC7230)

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  • BANK (EARTHWORK) (BANK & DITCH, Early Iron Age to Saxon - 700 BC? to 1065 AD?)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0175 m
SLIGHT TRACES OF DITCH REMAIN. MUCH ALTERED & DENUDED (B1). BANK IN GOOD CONDITION. FOOTPATH STILL OCCUPIES SITE OF DITCH. JUST BEFORE LILYBOTTOM FARM DYKE IS CUT AWAY BY DISUSED CHALK PIT. SOME CHURNING UP OF DITCH BOTTOM BY RIDERS (B2). Profile across earthwork recorded by Network Archaeology in February 1999 (B18).
SAM 35334. Scheduling revised September 2003 (B2).

Sources (16)

  • <1>SBC12693 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 1 P273.
  • <1>SBC14166 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P26.
  • <2>SBC13971 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 2003. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS.
  • <2>SBC265 Bibliographic reference: ALLCROFT A H 1908 EARTHWORK OF ENGLAND PP511-514.
  • <3>SBC15445 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 2 PP34-35.
  • <4>SBC3241 Article in serial: O G S Crawford. 1931. 'CHILTERN GRIM'S DITCH', IN ANTIQUITY 5 PP161-171. Vol 5.
  • <5>SBC6477 Article in serial: M W Hughes. 1931. 'GRIMS DITCH & CUTHWULF'S EXPEDITION TO THE CHILTERNS IN AD 571', IN ANTIQUITY 5 PP291-314. Vol 5.
  • <6>SBC16526 Article in serial: Mortimer Wheeler. 1934. WHEELER R E M 1934 'LONDON & THE GRIM'S DITCHES', IN ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL 14 PP254-263. Vol 14.
  • <7>SBC4461 Article in serial: James Dyer. 1963. 'THE CHILTERNS GRIMS DITCH', IN ANTIQUITY 37 PP46-49. Vol 37.
  • <8>SBC6307 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. 'EARLY MAN IN SOUTH BUCKS' PP65-66,77,89,103-104,111-112.
  • <9>SBC1800 Article in serial: Richard Bradley. 1968. 'SOUTH OXON GRIM'S DITCH & ITS SIGNIFICANCE', IN OXONIENSIA 33 PP1-13. Vol 33.
  • <10>SBC6418 Article in serial: J Hinchliffe. 1975. 'EXCAVATIONS AT GRIM'S DITCH, MONGEWELL,1974', IN OXONIENSIA 40 PP122-135. Vol 40.
  • <11>SBC16525 Unpublished document: Mortimer Wheeler. 1930. PHOTOCOPY OF WHEELER'S NOTES SUPPLIED BY C SAUNDERS, VERULAMIUM MUSEUM, FEB 1980.
  • <12>SBC4487 Unpublished document: H B Eaton. 1986. 'GRIM'S DITCH'.
  • <16>SBC19564 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1997. An Archaeological and Management Survey of Grim's Ditch, Buckinghamshire.
  • <18>SBC19566 Unpublished document: Network Archaeology. 1999. Grim's Ditch Archaeological and Management Survey Phase III. pp4,10,Appendix 2,Figs 4,21.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 8299 0137 (70m by 150m) (Centred on)
Civil Parish LACEY GREEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Jul 19 2018 10:39AM

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