Old Dashwood Hill Village Defences (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Fillington Wood medieval settlement

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.
Medieval County of Buckinghamshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SU798947
Latitude 51.64621° Longitude -0.84777°

Old Dashwood Hill Village Defences has been described as a certain Urban Defence.

There are earthwork remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

Description

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)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1014560, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number 28114
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 245508.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 0018600000.

Books
- Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p. 259
  Harman, H., 1934, Notes on West Wycombe p. 15-16
Periodical Articles
- Parker, R.F., Boarder, A.W.F. and Struth, P., 1991, 'A medieval settlement site at Fillington Wood, West Wycombe' Records of Buckinghamshire Vol. 33 p. 128-39
  1978, Records of Buckinghamshire Vol. 20.4 p. 142
  1974, Records of Buckinghamshire Vol. 19.4 p. 510-11 online copy
  (Parker), 1973, Records of Buckinghamshire Vol. 19.3 p. 349 online copy

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