Adwell Cop

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
SU703991

Nearest town:

Thame (7km NNW)

OS reference:

SU703991

OS sheet:

165

Latitude:

51° 41' 8.65 N

Longitude:

0° 58' 58.69 W

Added to TMA by

wysefool

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Adwell Cop

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork

wysefool May 16, 2007

Iron age settlement site. Finds of pottery. (ref: Bradford 1942).

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‘A small detached hillock, about midway between Tetsworth and Lewknor, some 1½ miles from the foot of the Chiltern escarpment’ – (quote found somewhere on that there ‘Tinternet’)

Adwell Cop

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork

wysefool May 16, 2007

UK Genealogy Archives

Includes the info:

‘Adwell Cop is an ancient entrenchment supposed to have been constructed by the Danes when they burnt Oxford in 1010.‘

(included here as links to change and expire)

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