Old Dashwood Hill Village Defences

In the civil parish of Piddington and Wheeler End.
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.

This site has been described as a;
Urban Defence.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Earthworks remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU798947

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

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