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Hertfordshire HER
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| HHER Number: | 4246 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | SUPPOSED 'DANISH CAMP', DANESBURY CRICKET GROUND, HERTFORD |
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Summary
More likely to be a pillow mound
Monument Types
- MILITARY CAMP? (Early Medieval - 410 AD to 1066 AD)
- PILLOW MOUND? (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
There is no real evidence of a 'Danish camp', but the cricket ground occupies the summit of a hill and has an unusual shape, an ovoid raised platform surrounded by a low rampart and possible ditch. Lies in 'Warren field' <1>. The place name is usually antiquarian speculation, without basis. The shape of the earthwork and the field name imply a rabbit warren, a pillow mound <2>.
Sources and further reading
| --- | Cartographic material: Tithe map and award. 1838 |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: Medi.Milit.Archit.in England,2,p121. |
| <1> | Index: OS Records. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Williamson, Tom. 2006. The archaeology of rabbit warrens. |
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