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STOWE GOLF COURSE Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment and Field Reconnaissance Survey Prepared by NETWORK ARCHAEOLOGY On behalf of STOWE SCHOOL Report Number: 450 June 2011 SGO 13/v1.0 Stowe Golf Course Development Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment and Field Survey DOCUMENT CONTROL SHEET Project title Stowe Golf Course Development Document Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment and Field Reconnaissance Survey title Report no. 450 Project code SGO 13 Accession n/a number File ref. SGO\13\report\text\v1.0 County/ Unitary Buckinghamshire County Council Authority District Aylesbury Vale Parish Stowe NGR(s) Centred on NGR 468440 237550 Distribution Stowe School; Buckinghamshire County Council Archaeology Service, AVDC Doc. Table of List of List of List of List of Control Text Apps Document Contents Appends Tables Plates Figures Comprises Sheet 1 2 1 1 0 1 53 21 Ver Status Author(s) Reviewer Approver Date Christopher Morley David Bonner David Bonner First BA (Hons), M.Phil. 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No responsibility can be accepted by the authors of the report(s) for any error of fact or opinion resulting from incorrect data supplied by any third party. i SGO 13/v1.0 Stowe Golf Course Development Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment and Field Survey CONTENTS Document control sheet............................................................................................ i Contents....................................................................................................................ii List of appendices ................................................................................................... iv List of tables ............................................................................................................. v List of figures........................................................................................................... vi Non-technical summary .......................................................................................... 1 1 Introduction ................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Purpose of the Report ................................................................................... 2 1.2 Commissioning Bodies .................................................................................. 2 1.3 Proposed Development.................................................................................. 2 1.4 Legislation, Regulations and Guidance ....................................................... 2 1.5 Staged approach to archaeological investigation........................................ 4 1.6 Aims ................................................................................................................ 4 1.7 Circulation of report ..................................................................................... 4 1.8 Resourcing...................................................................................................... 4 2 Method of assessment.................................................................................... 5 2.1 Frameworks and standards.......................................................................... 5 2.2 Study Area...................................................................................................... 5 2.3 Data collection................................................................................................ 5 2.4 Field reconnaissance survey ......................................................................... 6 2.5 Data management and presentation ............................................................ 6 2.6 Impact assessment process............................................................................ 8 2.7 Limitations of assessment ........................................................................... 12 3 Description of the Study Area .................................................................... 14 3.1 Location and topography............................................................................ 14 3.2 Mapped solid geology.................................................................................. 14 3.3 Mapped drift geology .................................................................................. 14 3.4 Mapped soils ................................................................................................ 14 3.5 Geotechnical investigation of the PDA ...................................................... 15 3.6 Ground contamination................................................................................ 15 3.7 Hydrology and hydrogeology ..................................................................... 15 4 Archaeology within the Study Area........................................................... 16 4.1 Previous archaeological work within the Study Area .............................. 16 4.2 Palaeolithic (c. 500 000 – 8300 BC) ............................................................ 16 4.3 Mesolithic (c. 8300 – 4000 BC) ................................................................... 17 4.4 Neolithic (c. 4200 – 2400 BC)...................................................................... 17 4.5 Bronze Age (c. 2400 – 800 BC) ................................................................... 18 4.6 Iron Age (c. 800 BC – AD 43) ..................................................................... 19 4.7 Prehistoric Period (c. 500 000 BC – AD 43) .............................................. 19 4.8 Roman (AD 43 – 410) .................................................................................. 20 4.9 The Anglo-Saxon Period (AD 410 – 1066)................................................. 22 4.10 Medieval (AD 1066 – 1540)......................................................................... 23 4.11 Post-Medieval and Early Modern (AD 1540 – 1939)................................ 25 4.12 Modern (AD 1939 to present)..................................................................... 28 ii SGO 13/v1.0 Stowe Golf Course Development Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment and Field Survey 4.13 Sites of Undetermined Date ........................................................................ 28 5 Field survey .................................................................................................. 29 5.1 Survey conditions and access...................................................................... 29 5.2 Observations within the PDA..................................................................... 29 5.3 Observations outside the PDA.................................................................... 34 5.4 Existing boundaries..................................................................................... 34 5.5 Discussion..................................................................................................... 34 6 Archaeological potential of the landscape within the Study Area .......... 35 6.1 Introduction ................................................................................................. 35 6.2 Palaeo-environmental and organic remains.............................................. 38 6.3 Summary of potential for encountering different classifications of Archaeological remains............................................................................... 39 7 impact Assessment....................................................................................... 41 7.1 Importance ................................................................................................... 41 7.2 Impact Assessment ...................................................................................... 41 7.3 Significance of Impact................................................................................. 45 8 Recommendations........................................................................................ 48 8.1 Site-specific recommendations ................................................................... 48 8.2 General recommendations.......................................................................... 49 9 Acknowledgments........................................................................................ 50 10 Bibliography................................................................................................