Land at Wavendon Park Milton Keynes

Between 23rd and 27th January 2012 Oxford Archaeology South (OAS), undertook
an archaeological evaluation, commissioned by Storey Homes, of land at Wavendon
Park, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes (National Grid Reference SP 9240 3690).
The evaluation revealed sparse archaeological features, in three out of twenty-one
excavated trenches. The results confirm that the site has low archaeological
potential, as previously indicated by a geophysical survey carried out in early
January 2012.
The only potentially significant and datable artefacts recovered during this
investigation were retrieved from the upper fill of Ditch 2007 in Trench 20. The
dating evidence for this feature is equivocal. The four pottery sherds are of late Iron
Age date, but the group is too small to be considered reliable dating evidence for
the feature. Ditch 2007 and the adjacent former hedge (2010) coincide with a
sinuous magnetic anomaly which is interpreted in the geophysical survey report as a
headland associated with extensive medieval/ post-medieval ridge and furrow.
A concentration of features in the eastern part of Trench 11, although intrinsically
undated, are most likely to represent a field track, boundary and associated
drainage ditches, leading south from Deethe Farmhouse. The available
documentary evidence suggests that the farmhouse was established in the 18th
century.
These remains are of limited local significance, although the late Iron Age sherds
provide slight evidence for settlement in the vicinity in that period.