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Hertfordshire HER
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| HHER Number: | 494 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | POST-MEDIEVAL POND, THE BURY, BARKWAY |
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Summary
Rectangular feature, now gone, suggested as a possible moat
Monument Types
- MOAT? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
- POND (Post Medieval - 1501 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
'Possible moat at The Bury. No other details' <1, citing Moated Sites Research Group record card>. Apparently a pond, infilled in recent landscaping of the park. No sign of a moat <2>.
The 1878 OS map <3> shows the feature in question, a rectangular island surrounded by a narrow channel (not certainly water-filled), 30m x 23.5m. It lay 120m north of the Obelisk [495], against the belt of woodland, and did not have the appearance of a moat. It is more likely another feature of the post-medieval landscaping. The alteration into a stud farm in the 20th century removed all trace of it.
<1> OS Records (Index). SHT8223.
<2> Cave-Penny, Helena (HCC) site report, 4.2.86 (Unpublished document). SHT4214.
<3> OS 25 inch map, 1st edition, 1877-78 (Cartographic material). SHT8116.
<4> OS 25 inch map, 2nd edition (1897-1901), 1898 (Cartographic material). SHT8113.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Index: OS Records. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Cave-Penny, Helena (HCC) site report. 4.2.86. |
| <3> | Cartographic material: OS 25 inch map, 1st edition. 1877-78. |
| <4> | Cartographic material: OS 25 inch map, 2nd edition (1897-1901). 1898. |
Related records
| 1831 | Part of: NEWSELLS PARK, BARKWAY (Landscape) |
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