Data from an Archaeological Trial Trench Evalution at Oatleys Farm, Buckinghamshire, 2021 (HS2 Phase One)

This collection comprises the site records, pottery data, and photographic archive from an archaeological trial trench evaluation at Oatleys Farm, Buckinghamshire, in February-March 2021. The trial trench investigation identified the remains of a pit alignment of probable late prehistoric date. Whilst no clear evidence of associated Bronze Age or Iron Age settlement was revealed, with only a few nearby postholes of potentially prehistoric date suggestive of possible related activity, the pit alignment provides evidence of an important land boundary that was perhaps associated with nearby settlement. A deposit roughly corresponding with a faint earthwork detected by the remote sensing survey in the east of the Site (Area C25109) probably comprised the remains of a headland formed through medieval/post-medieval ridge-and-furrow cultivation. The documentary and finds archives will be deposited with Discover Bucks Museum.