Land off Chilton Road, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire. Archaeological Evaluation (OASIS ID: cotswold2-317182)

The evaluation was preceded by a desk-based assessment and geophysical survey of the site, the latter detecting three concentric curvilinear anomalies in the northern corner that were interpreted as the remains of an Iron Age hillfort. Previously, the presence of the hillfort had been tentatively suggested by cropmarks c. 350m to the north-east of the site, which had led to the site being included within an Archaeological Notification Area. The evaluation confirmed the presence of the hillfort ditches and recovered a small assemblage of Late Bronze Age/Iron Age pottery sherds and fragments of animal bone from excavated features. Features within the hillfort included a possible internal enclosure ditch or second inner ditch and three shallow pits. The largely ploughed-out remains of medieval/post-medieval ridge and furrow ploughing, which once formed part of the open field system surrounding the village of Long Crendon, were recorded in all but three of the trial trenches. Two post-medieval/modern agricultural ditches were also encountered, one of which may correspond with a boundary shown on the Enclosure Award map of 1827