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Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch is a 520-metre-long section of linear earthwork located between Lanes End and Bottom Road in Buckinghamshire, England. The monument forms part of the broader Grim's Ditch system that extends across the Chiltern Hills and represents a substantial territorial or defensive boundary of Iron Age origin. The surviving section comprises a ditch with associated banks, characteristic of the linear earthworks that demarcated land divisions or served protective functions during the Iron Age period. This particular length of the monument is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1021201 and remains a significant archaeological record of prehistoric land management and settlement patterns in the region.
Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 520m long section between Lanes End and Bottom Road is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021201. View the official record →
Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch is a 520-metre-long section of linear earthwork located between Lanes End and Bottom Road in Buckinghamshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021201.
Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 520m long section between Lanes End and Bottom Road is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1021201.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site and associated earthworks in Bray's Wood (3 km), Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 350m long section extending north east from Cottage Farm (4.6 km), Hawridge Court ringwork (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 520m long section between Lanes End and Bottom Road's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 520m long section between Lanes End and Bottom Road stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.