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HHER Number:4246
Type of record:Monument
Name:SUPPOSED 'DANISH CAMP', DANESBURY CRICKET GROUND, HERTFORD

Summary

More likely to be a pillow mound

Grid Reference:TL 325 134
Map Sheet:TL31SW
Parish:Hertford
Map:Show location on GoogleMaps

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.