The Gatehouse website record for Old Dashwood Hill Village Defences

In the civil parish of Piddington and Wheeler End [West Wycombe Rural]. In the historic county of Buckinghamshire (Modern Authority of Buckinghamshire, 1974 county of Buckinghamshire).

Enclosed medieval settlement known as Old Dashwood Hill. The enclosure has a ditch and bank which define a roughly circular area 60m across. The bank is best preserved to south where it stands up to 0.6m high and measures circa 3m wide. The ditch, despite having become partly infilled over the years, measures up to 7m wide and circa 1m deep. Within the enclosure lie a series of medieval building foundations. Pottery found during the excavations shows that there was Roman activity on the site but that the ditch remained in use in the medieval perod. A nearby shaft provided a well which was later used for the disposal of human remains, believed to be the victims of the Black Death during C14. This is also when the site appears to have been abandoned. (PastScape)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU798947

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 245508
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 0018600000 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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