Old Dashwood Hill Village Defences
Has been described as a Certain Urban Defence
There are earthwork remains
| Name | Old Dashwood Hill Village Defences |
| Alternative Names | Fillington Wood medieval settlement |
| Historic Country | Buckinghamshire |
| Modern Authority | Buckinghamshire |
| 1974 Authority | Buckinghamshire |
| Civil Parish | Piddington and Wheeler End (West Wycombe Rural) |
Enclosed medieval settlement known as Old Dashwood Hill. The enclosure has a ditch and bank which define a roughly circular area 60m across. The bank is best preserved to south where it stands up to 0.6m high and measures circa 3m wide. The ditch, despite having become partly infilled over the years, measures up to 7m wide and circa 1m deep. Within the enclosure lie a series of medieval building foundations. Pottery found during the excavations shows that there was Roman activity on the site but that the ditch remained in use in the medieval perod. A nearby shaft provided a well which was later used for the disposal of human remains, believed to be the victims of the Black Death during C14. This is also when the site appears to have been abandoned. (PastScape)
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | SU798947 |
| Latitude | 51.6462097167969 |
| Longitude | -0.847769975662231 |
| Eastings | 479830 |
| Northings | 194700 |
