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HHER Number:4068
Type of record:Monument
Name:MEDIEVAL TOWN DITCH, ST ALBANS

Summary - not yet available

Parish:St Albans City

Monument Types

  • TOWN DEFENCES (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)

Full description

Town ditch mentioned by Burne <2> as being dug during the Barons War, c1265, & surmounted by a palisade. He shows it enclosing the town on the N & E of the Ver <1>

Sources and further reading

<1>Index: OS Records.
<2>Cartographic material: A H Burne?. Battlefields of Eng.,1951,p79,Sketchmaps 11&1.