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| CHER Number: | 03267 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible site of motte, Orwell |
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Summary - not yet available
| Grid Reference: | TL 361 504 |
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| Parish: | Orwell, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire |
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Monument Type(s):
- MOTTE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Full description
1, On an estate map of c 1680 (now in CUL) a mound is shown between the spring and the church on an approximately square parcel of some 1,5 acres inscribed 'Lordship'. This mound, which may have been a small motte, was levelled c 1883 to make way for a school.
O1, Planning application s/1373/84. Correspondence in parish file. There is no trace of the motte now, and it seems a very unlikely location.
<1> RCHM, 1968, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire. Volume I. West Cambridgeshire, 188 (illus) (Bibliographic reference). SCB18049.
<2> CCC Archaeology, Medieval Village Survey (Bibliographic reference). SCB2334.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: RCHM. 1968. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire. Volume I. West Cambridgeshire. 188 (illus). |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: CCC Archaeology. Medieval Village Survey. |
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