Monument record 0245700000 - LISCOMBE PARK (S CORNER)

Dimensions - Radius 21m.
Plan Form - Circular.
Ditched windmill mound, causeway to W; in 1974 was 1.4m high, 42m diameter (B5).
On AP (B4).
Called 'Mill Hill' (B6).
In 1913 noted as 'Moated Mound' 7 feet high, 80 feet diameter at base, 40 feet at top, with dry ditch 3 feet wide (B1).
Has been dug into? (B6).
NGR to 'Mound' (B3).
See also CASS 01077:02.
A late medieval or post-medieval windmill mound is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located in a field adjacent Rocklane Farm within Liscombe Park and centred at SP88579 25113, the windmill mound is a total of 43 metres wide. It comprises a roughly circular ditch between 4.09 and 7.2 metres in diameter encloses a central circular windmill mound about 30 metres wide that, in turn, has a central circular pit or depression some 13 metres in diameter. Aerial photographs dated to 1946 show a tree to be sited on top of the mound and by 1961, even more trees covered the site, a condition which continues to the present. The central depression is possibly therefore a tree throw. On the northwest facing side of the ditch is 10 metres wide and 6 metres long semi-circular scoop from the surface that does not extend to the bottom of the ditch. On the west facing side of the windmill mound is a causeway for access. The windmill appears to have been sited on a block of classic reversed S-shaped ridge and furrow cultivation earthworks, suggesting it is dated to the later medieval or post medieval periods (7-10).