Monument record 0014010001 - PRESTWOOD COMMON

Summary

Historic records and field-name evidence that Grim's Ditch, an Iron Age linear earthwork, probably extended onto Prestwood Common

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  • BANK (EARTHWORK) (BANK & DITCH, Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

1850 REF TO PRESTWOOD COMMON & 60 ACRES AT ITS W END BOUNDED ON W BY ROAD FROM POLECAT LANE TO HONOR END & ON E BY A LARGE BANK CALLED GRIME'S DITCH (B4).
MR KEEN IDENTIFIES THE 60-ACRE FIELD (CENTRED NGR). 'GRYMS DYKE' ESTATE, MID C20, NOW OCCUPIES AREA (& SEE H B EATON'S WORK, FILED, ON POSS COURSE) (B12).

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  • <1>SBC12646 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 1 P176.
  • <1>SBC14166 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P26.
  • <2>SBC19 Map: 05 1960 6INCH MAP.
  • <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.
  • <4>SBC664 Unpublished document: 1850. AUCTION ADVERTISEMENT, GREAT MISSENDEN INCLOSURE, NOV 1850.
  • <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.
  • <5>SBC6887 Unpublished document: KEEN D (SEE LETTER FILED).
  • <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SBC16525 Unpublished document: Mortimer Wheeler. 1930.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SBC4487 Unpublished document: H B Eaton. 1986.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SBC19564 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1997.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.

Location

Grid reference SP 87200 00500 (point) (Approximate)
Civil Parish GREAT MISSENDEN, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 17 2015 3:34PM

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