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Hertfordshire HER
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| HHER Number: | 801 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | POST-MEDIEVAL MOUND, GOLDEN PARSONAGE, GREAT GADDESDEN |
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Summary - not yet available
Monument Types
- GARDEN FEATURE (Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1900 AD)
- PROSPECT MOUND? (Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
- Area of Archaeological Significance 35
Full description
Tree-covered mound near Golden Parsonage. Variously described as a tumulus, windmill mound, 'adulterine' castle etc. Excavations in 1981 revealed it to be mid 19th century and presumably constructed as an 'eye-catcher' <1> within the park [9573]. Further work to test a suggestion that it might have covered an icehouse found no trace of any structure <2>. It looks like a prospect mound, although the mid 19th century is late for such a feature.
Sources and further reading
| --- | Unpublished document: Mike Daniels (HCC) site report. 28.3.1985 |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: RCHM 1910. - p102 |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: VCH Herts vol.2 (1908). - p200, 205 |
| <1> | Article in serial: Nicholas Doggett & Jonathan Hunn. 1982. Excavations at Golden Parsonage 'tumulus', Gaddesden Row; Herts Past 13 (autumn 1982), 31. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Nicholas Doggett & Jonathan Hunn. 1987. Further excavations at Golden Parsonage, Gaddesden Row; Herts Past 22, p29. |
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