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CHER Number:MCB29762
Type of record:Monument
Name:Post medieval extraction, Alconbury Weston

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Grid Reference:TL 180 766
Parish:Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

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Full description

1.Cropmarks of an area of localised extracion or mining, possibly the visible remains of 19th century coprolite mining which is visible on aerial photographs on the south-eastern edge of Alconbury Weston at TL 1803 7661. The extraction appears as an area within the remains of levelled medieval ridge and furrow where numerous small strips of ground have been dug in tight rows and subsequently backfilled and returned to farmland.


<1> English Heritage, NMR 27119_042 01-JUL-2011 (Aerial Photograph). SCB65590.

Sources and further reading

<1>Aerial Photograph: English Heritage. NMR 27119_042 01-JUL-2011.