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Summary

Duck Decoy site in Hermitage Wood

Monument Type(s):

• MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• EARTHWORK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• HERMITAGE (RELIGIOUS) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• DECOY POND (Medieval to 19th century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status:

• Scheduled Monument () 1006857: Duck Decoy site in Hermitage Wood
• SHINE: Earthwork enclosures and ditches, Hermitage Wood

Full description

Decoy, site of Hermitage, Hermitage Wood
<CB13233> There would appear to have been a hermitage in the immediate neighbourhood of the homestead moat (TL 17 NE 21), early in the C16
R3, Moat (NR) at TL/1966/7786.O6, Published 25in correct, but this is a decoy not a moat.
<CB6225> A well preserved moated enclosure some 10,5m x 15,5m in Hermitage Wood is believed to mark the site of a small hermitage built on land held by Merton Priory in Surrey here since 1157. The hermitage seems to have been abandoned by 1325 when the site was referred to as Hermitage Wood, a name it has retained until the present day. Merton Priory held the rectory, 3 acres enclosed by a dyke and a hedge and a further 50 acres of land here. The site is marked by a well-preserved rectangular ditched enclosure some 10,5m by 15,5m in Hermitage Wood. The moat is in private hands but can be seen from the public footpath running on the E side of Hermitage Wood.

RCHM, 1926, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire, 12 (Bibliographic reference). SCB12619.

1978, DOE (IAM) AMs in England 3, 14 (Unpublished document). SCB5258.

1958, OS 6 inch map (Map). SCB9007.

Haigh, D., 1988, The Religious Houses of Cambridgeshire, p. 1 (Bibliographic reference). SCB6219.

1791, Inclosure Map (Map). SCB6353.

<6> Baird, J., Field Investigator Comments, 24/3/71 (Verbal communication). SCB62256.

Sources and further reading

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