Monument record 0048600000 - MANOR FARM, LITTLE HORWOOD: windmill mound

Plan Form - CIRCULAR
BROAD LOW MOUND. IN FIELD ADJACENT TO DESERTED SETTLEMENT OF SHUCKLOW (CASS 0207). SHUCKLOW means the BARROW OF THE EVIL GOBLIN, SO IS THIS MOUND AROUND BARROW? (B2). DRAWING of MILL MOUND? (B3).
SITE ADJOINS PARISH BOUNDARY (B2).
FIELDNAME on Salden Estate map appears to be 'Berry Field' (B1).
PHOTO FILED. MEDIEVAL POTTERY SHERDS COLLECTED FROM MOUND, SO PERHAPS SITE IS A WINDMILL MOUND (CF CAS 0485)(B3).
11 FURTHER MEDIEVAL SHERDS COLLECTED FROM SITE OF CENTRE OF MOUND AFTER DEEP PLOUGHING (B5).



('A' SP 78653136; 'B' SP 78713142) Two mounds lying in a field called 'Berry Ground' (a), where the approximate site of a windmill is shown on the Salden Estate Map c1600. The Whaddon Chase Enclosure Map shows a horseshoe pond in the same position. Field called 'Windmill Close'. Sherds of Md potery found in 1973. The mound 'A' identified by Bull as a possible barrow and 'B' a low windmill mound (B6).
In a level field are two ploughed-down elongated mounds (A and B) each c 0.5m high, but too amorphous to enable classification or survey action. Mound 'A' is approximately 20.0m NW-SE by 15.0 transversely; and 'B' is about 25.0m NE-SW by 16.0m transversely, though the NE arc of the latter is destroyed by a hedge/ditch line.
No soil discolouration and no finds made. Both mounds are indistinguishable from each other, and, as the field name suggests, are probably the remains of windmill mounds (B7).

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