Monument record 8767/0/1 - Possible Medieval/Post Medieval Ditch & Bank, Wicken Wood/Leckhampstead Wood

Earthwork banks and ditches identified during forest survey.

{1} Earthwork bank and ditch recorded.

{4-6} An area of managed woodland containing unmapped features of probable medieval date are visible on remote sensing data as extant earthworks and were mapped as part of Historic England’s North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project. Located within Leckhampstead Wood, Leckhampstead, and centred at SP 72604 40158. Leckhampstead Wood is shown on Ordnance Survey Epoch1 mapping and on the Ordnance Surveyors’ Drawing of stony Stratford from 1814. The woodland has been enlarged from the earlier boundaries which exist inside those shown on the Epoch 1 map. The parish boundary between Leckhampstead and Lillingstone Lovell follows these on the western side of the woodland. No features which are shown on the Epoch 1 map (rides and trackways and one small area of ridge and furrow earthworks survive, formerly outside the woodland) have been mapped as part of this project, only those which were not recorded. [Only those features that fall within Northamptonshire have been copied over- the wood banks that border Leckhampstead Wood and Wicken Wood]

<1> Hall D.N., 2001, Northamptonshire Woodland Survey Archive, (part checked) (Digital archive). SNN109590.

<2> Hall D.N., 2000, Forest Enterprise Woodlands In Northamptonshire: Whittlewood Forest And Other Woods, Archaeological Survey, Part 3, (unchecked) (Report). SNN100485.

<3> Hall D.N., 2000, The Historic Landscape of Whittlewood Forest: Historic Landscape Mapping, (unchecked) (Report). SNN102634.

<4> Royal Air Force, 1940s, RAF Vertical Aerial Photographs, RAF/CPE/UK/1994 RS 4048 13-Apr-1947 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN105266.

<5> Environment Agency, LIDAR Composite DTM - 1m, LIDAR SP7239 Environment Agency 1m DTM Composite 2017-2019 date accessed 25-Feb-2020 (Digital Plots). SNN111710.

<6> Environment Agency, LIDAR Composite DTM - 1m, LIDAR SP7240 Environment Agency 1m DTM Composite 2017-2019 date accessed 25-Feb-2020 (Digital Plots). SNN111710.

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Nov 26 2024 3:09PM