Scheduled MonumentsEnglandRoundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains

Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains

England
List entry 1015211
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1015211
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
3.61 hectares
Grid reference
SP 79428 02357
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains is a medieval monument located in Buckinghamshire, England. The site comprises a moated enclosure alongside associated fishponds and the dispersed remains of agricultural and domestic occupation, typical of high medieval settlement patterns in the region. The moated feature and associated earthworks date to the medieval period, representing the physical infrastructure of a manorial or gentry holding that exploited both water resources for fish production and the surrounding agricultural landscape. The survival of these earthworks provides evidence of medieval land management, water engineering, and the spatial organisation of rural settlement in Buckinghamshire during the medieval era.

Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015211. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains?

Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains is a medieval monument located in Buckinghamshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015211.

Who is responsible for protecting Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains?

Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains 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 1015211.

What other scheduled monuments are near Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman villa east of Lodge Hill Farm (3.4 km), Two bowl barrows 450m north west of Slough Glebe Farm, part of the Saunderton Lee barrow cemetery (3.5 km), Bell barrow 260m WNW of Slough Glebe Farm, part of the Saunderton Lee barrow cemetery (3.7 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains

Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.