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Summary

Site of a medieval windmill on an older mound, which could have been a motte, or a prehistoric barrow

Images

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Monument Types

• ROUND BARROW? (Late Neolithic to Earlier Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1201 BC)
• MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
• MOTTE? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
• WINDMILL (Post Medieval - 1501 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

• Scheduled Ancient Monument 18:10485
• Area of Archaeological Significance 123
• Scheduled Ancient Monument HT18: 'THE MOUNT'

Full description

Circular mound c.18m in diam., 2.1m high, surrounded by dry moat c.3m wide. Excavation revealed the cross-beam foundations of a sunk post-mill at c.1.8m depth (of late 14th-early 15th century type). The range of finds was 13th to 15th century, but the pottery was predominantly 13th century. Since the cross-beams appeared to cut into an existing mound it may be a re-used motte, though it is also possible that the mill re-used a Bronze Age barrow <1>.
A mill is recorded in 1222 <3>, and <2> notes a 'Mill Field' nearby, but nothing is shown on Seller's Map of 1676 <5>. The site is now covered by scrub and trees <4>.

Ancient Monuments Field Report (Unpublished document). SHT8300.

OS Records (Index). SHT8223.

<1> (Andrews, Herbert C), 1928-9, The Mount, Sandon; Trans East Herts Archaeol Soc 8/1, 137-8 (Article in serial). SHT8405.

<2> TSAHAAS,1934,p173-83 (Report). SHT11100.

<3> Renn, Derek, 1971, Medieval castles in Hertfordshire, - p23 (Bibliographic reference). SHT9405.

<4> Wild, Sarah (HCC), 1994, Survey, 19.1.94 (Unpublished document). SHT9650.

<5> Moore, Cyril, 1985, Hertfordshire windmills; Herts Past 19 (autumn 1985), 2-17 (Article in serial). SHT2245.

Sources and further reading

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