Reddingwick Wood, Buckinghamshire
The medieval moated farmstead : birds-eye view from the south-west Illustration by Daniel Secker
The earthworks at Reddingwick Wood occupy a plateau some 3km north-east of Great Missenden. They are one of a number of medieval ditched homestead sites found in the Chilterns. The site at Reddingwick wood was surveyed by this writer. During survey, some sherds of grit-tempered 12th-13th century pottery and a hip-tile were noted. There is no documentary evidence pertaining to the unexcavated site, but it would appear to have been held by a subtenant of nearby Missenden Abbey
The reconstruction shows the main moated site, which had a double ditch on the western side, where there is an original causewayed entrance. Unusually, the moat has internal banks which are here shown with flint revetments. Within the moated enclosure there are traces of three building platforms. What these buildings were is uncertain and their reconstructions here are purely speculative. It is postulated that there was a hall block at the east end of the site and a barn at its centre. The best preserved building platform is that to the north-west, representing an outbuilding of uncertain function
The earthworks at Reddingwick Wood occupy a plateau some 3km north-east of Great Missenden. They are one of a number of medieval ditched homestead sites found in the Chilterns. The site at Reddingwick wood was surveyed by this writer. During survey, some sherds of grit-tempered 12th-13th century pottery and a hip-tile were noted. There is no documentary evidence pertaining to the unexcavated site, but it would appear to have been held by a subtenant of nearby Missenden Abbey
The reconstruction shows the main moated site, which had a double ditch on the western side, where there is an original causewayed entrance. Unusually, the moat has internal banks which are here shown with flint revetments. Within the moated enclosure there are traces of three building platforms. What these buildings were is uncertain and their reconstructions here are purely speculative. It is postulated that there was a hall block at the east end of the site and a barn at its centre. The best preserved building platform is that to the north-west, representing an outbuilding of uncertain function