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Summary

Earthwork running obliquely across Wash Common, suggested by Walter Money to be the remains of a Royalist battery erected during the First Battle of Newbury

Monument Type(s):

• FIELDWORK? (17th century to Late 19th century - 1643 AD? to 1900 AD?)

Full Description

Money's plan of the First Battle of Newbury shows a linear earthwork running from the position of the Gun Public House to a point southeast of the tumuli. He wrote in the 1880s that remains of this still existed, and he interpreted it as a 'roughly raised battery' for the King's heavy guns <1>. No sign of the feature appears on modern OS maps, although a field boundary near the barrow cemetery on the 1st edition map could correlate with the supposed line. The area is now mainly housing.
The GIS line for this monument is based approximately on Money's drawing.

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