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| CHER Number: | MCB17942 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Undated cropmark, Weybridge Park |
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Summary
Feature appears to be a square ditch on earlier OS maps. Possible hunting lodge/tower or windmill. A possible duck decoy to the west of the square.
| Grid Reference: | TL 186 723 |
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| Parish: | Alconbury, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire |
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Monument Type(s):
- LODGE? (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
- WINDMILL? (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
Protected Status:
- SHINE (Unvalidated): Square ditched enclosure, possibly a hunting lodge or windmill, Weybridge Park
Full description
1. Feature appears to be a square ditch on OS maps from 1888 - 1952. Possible hunting lodge/tower or windmill. Cropmark identified by a member of the public.
2. Cropmark of a small square single-single ditched enclosure of uncertain date visible on aerial photographs taken by English Heritage in July 2006. This feature is recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey map as a square ditch-defined enclosure 25m across.
<1> Coates, C., 2008, Email: Cropmark near Alconbury, 2008 (Verbal communication). SCB20955.
<2> Historic England, NMR TL 1872/1 NMR 24363/34 17-JUL-2006 (Aerial Photograph). SCB65415.
<3> Historic England, 2022, Historic England Aerial Photograph Explorer, Aerial Photo - 24363_036 (Website). SCB74356.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Verbal communication: Coates, C.. 2008. Email: Cropmark near Alconbury, 2008. |
| <2> | Aerial Photograph: Historic England. NMR TL 1872/1 NMR 24363/34 17-JUL-2006. |
| <3> | Website: Historic England. 2022. Historic England Aerial Photograph Explorer. https://historicengland.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2626ed0c37484d96b8954dd33187084e. Aerial Photo - 24363_036. |
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