CHAPTER XII - SOME SUGGESTIONS

Abstract

With the intensive building campaign of pre-war years which at present has been resumed, it is to be hoped that attention will be paid to the archaeologically important areas of Buckinghamshire before they are submerged beneath the tide of bricks and mortar, like those of Middlesex. The cooperation of the historian in collecting early forms of place-names and field-names could be of much assistance to the archaeologist in Buckinghamshire and might lead to the identification of prehistoric earthworks or other sites awaiting excavation. The Distribution Map of the Roman period indicates a marked concentration of the occupation on the floor of the Saunderton Valley in the neighbourhood of the springs beside the Upper Icknield Way. An adequately controlled excavation of the Iron Age Romano-British village on Lodge Hill in the centre of the Saunderton Valley is particularly desired. Regarding the interior, the Mount, a mound in Wilton Park near Beaconsfield, should certainly be excavated under the supervision of a professional archaeologist. High priority should also be given to a complete excavation of the large hill-fort known as Bulstrode Park Camp where serious encroachment upon the defences has already taken place.