Data from a Trial Trench Evaluation at Kings Pond Cottages, Buckinghamshire, 2019 (HS2 Phase One)

This collection comprises site data (digital photographs, GIS files, reports, scanned trench and context sheets, registers and drawings) from a trial trench evaluation by INFRA Archaeology on land at Kings Pond Cottage, near Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. The evaluation, comprising 19 trenches, was undertaken during February 2019.

The results of the evaluation on land at Kings Pond Cottage identified agricultural exploitation, likely removed from a settlement. Only one feature was able to be dated with any certainty, a field boundary ditch from the late 13th to early 15th century.

Further work on Site is recommended as it could clarify the extent of the linear features and pits identified during this evaluation, and hopefully provide further dating evidence for these features. This could take the form of a small-scale open-area excavation targeted on the area south of centre where the evaluation detected a slightly increased concentration of features. Any further work, or other archaeological interventions in the immediate area, would benefit from the results and data provided by this archive.