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HHER Number:44
Type of record:Monument
Name:MOATED MOUND, COLE GREEN, BRENT PELHAM

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 425 311
Map Sheet:TL43SW
Parish:Brent Pelham, East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire
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Monument Types

  • MOAT? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
  • MOTTE? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
  • WINDMILL MOUND? (Post Medieval - 1501 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • Sensitivity Map: mill mound, cole green
  • Scheduled Ancient Monument HT20: MOATED MOUND AT COLE GREEN NEAR BRENT PELHAM
  • Scheduled Ancient Monument 20:11029
  • Area of Archaeological Significance 13

Full description

Circular mound c.26m diameter and c.4m high surrounded by a now dry moat with a portion on the S side infilled <1>. Once thought possibly a Roman or earlier barrow <2, 4, 5>, the OS call it a windmill mound, with a flat top and a 50cm deep depression in it <3>, and Renn describes it as possibly a castle <6>.


Ancient Monuments Field Report (Unpublished document). SHT8300.


<1> Dunning, G C, & Jessup, R F, 1936, Roman barrows; Antiquity 10,, - p52 (Article in serial). SHT8989.


<2> Andrews, R T, 1905, The mound, Brent Pelham; Trans East Herts Archaeol Soc 3/1, 58-60 (Article in serial). SHT5857.


<3> OS Records (Index). SHT8223.


<4> Fox, Cyril, 1923, The archaeology of the Cambridge region, - p198 (Bibliographic reference). SHT3615.


<5> RCHM (England), 1911, Inventory of the historical monuments in Hertfordshire, - p71 (Bibliographic reference). SHT9222.


<6> Renn, Derek, 1971, Medieval castles in Hertfordshire, - p22 (Bibliographic reference). SHT9405.

Sources and further reading

---Unpublished document: Ancient Monuments Field Report.
<1>Article in serial: Dunning, G C, & Jessup, R F. 1936. Roman barrows; Antiquity 10,. - p52.
<2>Article in serial: Andrews, R T. 1905. The mound, Brent Pelham; Trans East Herts Archaeol Soc 3/1, 58-60.
<3>Index: OS Records.
<4>Bibliographic reference: Fox, Cyril. 1923. The archaeology of the Cambridge region. - p198.
<5>Bibliographic reference: RCHM (England). 1911. Inventory of the historical monuments in Hertfordshire. - p71.
<6>Bibliographic reference: Renn, Derek. 1971. Medieval castles in Hertfordshire. - p22.

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