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HHER Number:2022
Type of record:Monument
Name:GRIM'S DITCH, DARR'S LANE, NORTHCHURCH

Summary

Traces of the prehistoric earthwork

Grid Reference:SP 970 083
Map Sheet:SP90NE
Parish:Northchurch, Dacorum, Hertfordshire
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Monument Types

  • LINEAR EARTHWORK (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 49 AD)

Associated Events

  • Survey of Grim's Ditch earthwork at Woodcock Hill, Northchurch, 1998
  • Watching brief at Hospice of St Francis, Shootersway, Berkhamsted, 2004

Protected Status

  • SHINE: Section of Grim's Ditch northwest of Berkhamsted
  • Area of Archaeological Significance

Full description

Ditch, not obvious on the ground <1> but which does appear on aerial photomapping <2>.
The earthwork has been destroyed west of Darr's Lane by the brickworks [12823], from SP 96880 08315 to SP 96530 08470 <3>. The extant earthworks 200m to the ESE have been surveyed <4>.


OS Records (Index). SHT8223.


<1> Cave-Penny, Helena (HCC) site report, 10.12.85 (Unpublished document). SHT4214.


<2> HCC vertical photomapping, 1972-3, Sheet 662 (Aerial Photograph). SHT1192.


<3> Doyle, Kate, & Turner, Steve, 2005, Hospice of St Francis, Shootersway, Berkhamsted, Herts: archaeological monitoring & recording, RNO 1645 (Report). SHT6339.


<4> Berkhamsted & District Local History Society Historic House & Gardens Research Group, 1999, Woodcock Hill, Northchurch, Herts. The development of an estate, RNO 3143, Section 8 (Unpublished document). SHT3143.

Sources and further reading

---Index: OS Records.
<1>Unpublished document: Cave-Penny, Helena (HCC) site report. 10.12.85.
<2>Aerial Photograph: HCC vertical photomapping, 1972-3. Sheet 662.
<3>Report: Doyle, Kate, & Turner, Steve. 2005. Hospice of St Francis, Shootersway, Berkhamsted, Herts: archaeological monitoring & recording. watching brief. RNO 1645.
<4>Unpublished document: Berkhamsted & District Local History Society Historic House & Gardens Research Group. 1999. Woodcock Hill, Northchurch, Herts. The development of an estate. RNO 3143, Section 8.

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