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HER Number: 2918
Record Type: Monument
Name: Undated Earthwork

Grid Reference: SU 503 984
Parish:ABINGDON, VALE OF WHITE HORSE, OXFORDSHIRE

Monument Type(s):

Summary

Traces of a bank and ditch c.390' [118m] long along a footpath leading to Radley, on the north side of a large field opposite the turn to Northcourt on the upper Oxford Road near Abingdon, now destroyed by a housing estate

Associated Monuments

  • None

    • Associated Finds:

  • None

    • Description

    1) Much slighter traces of a bank extend for the same distance on the east side, but nothing was visible on the other two sides. The site is comparable with the unfinished Park Wood intrenchments at Hampstead Norris and it fits the position described by Leland of an earthwork called 'Serpenhill'


    <1> Berks Archaeological Journal, Vol 40 (1936) pp.164-5, Plan, fig 2 (Serial). SOX390.

    <2> Field Notes/Field Visit, G H Pitcher (1963) (Unpublished document). SOX261.

    Sources

    <1>Berks Archaeological Journal. Vol 40 (1936) pp.164-5, Plan, fig 2. [Serial / SOX390]
    <2>Field Notes/Field Visit. G H Pitcher (1963). [Unpublished document / SOX261]

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