Monument record 0014013000 - GRIM'S DITCH,BALDWINS WOOD

Summary

Possible Iron Age linear earthwork recorded in field survey

Protected Status/Designation

  • Ancient Monument 1021199: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE GRIM'S DITCH: 1500M LONG SECTION FROM GREAT WIDMOOR WOOD TO OAKEN GROVE (DBC7222)
  • Planning Notification Area: Earthworks of Prehistoric linear boundary of Grims Ditch (DBC9593)

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Type and Period (2)

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

Description

Dimensions - Length 0390 m
Plan Form - LINEAR
COURSE OF GRIM'S DITCH IS QUITE DISTINCT IN BALDWIN'S WOOD WHERE DEW-PONDS HAVE FORMED IN THE DITCH (B1). MARKED BETWEEN NGR'S (B2). STEEP FALL TOWARDS S WITH DITCH FORMED BY A PROBABLE POND DEEPENED IN MODERN TIMES, POSSIBLY AS LANDSCAPING. SCHEDULED: SAM 35341. SCHEDULING REVISED FEBRUARY 2004 (B3). 2 profiles across earthwork recorded by Network Archaeology in February 1999 (B18).

Sources (17)

  • <1>SBC12838 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 1 PP312-313.
  • <1>SBC14166 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P26.
  • <2>SBC10467 Map: OS 1976 1:10000 MAP.
  • <2>SBC265 Bibliographic reference: ALLCROFT A H 1908 EARTHWORK OF ENGLAND PP511-514.
  • <3>SBC13988 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 2004. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS: SAM NO. 35341.
  • <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SBC16525 Unpublished document: Mortimer Wheeler. 1930.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. pp4,11,Appendix 2, Figs 7,24.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 8957 0677 (280m by 260m) (Centred on)
Civil Parish WENDOVER, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Feb 28 2013 7:47PM

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