Data from a Trial Trench Evaluation at Upper Bottom House Farm, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, 2018-2019 (HS2 Phase One)

This collection comprises site data (digital photographs, reports, GIS, spreadsheets, scanned trench and context sheets, registers and drawings) from an evaluation by INFRA Archaeology at Upper Bottom House Farm, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. The evaluation was carried out in three phases, in December 2018, June 2019 and December 2019.
The sparsity of archaeological features, which furthermore appear to be isolated and mostly undated, hinders any overall characterisation of the Site.
The large quarry pit is a single entity and is more than likely associated with the extraction of chalk for building material, probably for one of the buildings in the vicinity. The ditches are relatively shallow and of little potential other than as former field boundaries of probable post-medieval date. These remains are thus of low potential being of only local significance and offer almost no contribution to the knowledge creation objectives identified for this site, nor do they contribute to any other knowledge creation objectives detailed in the GWSI HERDS.
The Site has no potential to contribute to the research objectives set out in the GWSI HERDS and no further work is recommended.