| Suffolk HER Number (Pref. Ref.): | RSM 001 |
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| Unique number (MonUID): | MSF1043 |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| Parish: | REDISHAM, WAVENEY, SUFFOLK |
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| NGR: | TM 3986 8375 |
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Summary
`Mill Mount', SW of the village .
Monument Types
Associated Finds: None recorded
Protected Status: None recorded
Description
`Mill Mount, SW of the village ... is a small circular mount 9 feet in height, with a slight depression in the middle of the summit. It is surrounded by a fosse with a counterscarp now measuring 4 feet at its highest point, and a breadth of 10 feet at its broadest part; but both height and width have been badly trodden by cattle' (S1).
Probably a mill mount, very small, not much of a mound, overgrown (S2). Near Redisham/Westhall parish boundary. Reported to have been flattened by the farmer 1983 (S3).
Named `Mill Mount' and marked as `Castle Mound' on OS map (S4) and named `Mill Mount' on Tithe Apportionment of 1842 (S5).
Sources
| [R1] | Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TM38SE1. (SSF50032) |
| [S1] | Bibliographic reference: 1911. VCH Suffolk 1. 593. (SSF54455) |
| [S2] | (No record type): SAU (West S E), 1971. (SSF18201) |
| [S3] | (No record type): SAU (Martin E), undated. (SSF18047) |
| [S4] | (No record type): OS, 1:10560 map, circa 1958. (SSF12614) |
| [S5] | Map: 1840. Redisham Tithe Map. Redisham Tithe, SRO (Ipswich), FDA 200/A1/1. (SSF17522) |
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