sky-lark plots sound delightful but, what are they?

Noel

Is it possible that the window-like structure isn’t archaeological at all, but rather the remnants of something agricultural, like sky-lark plots (although they’re a bit small, I have to admit ...)?

All the best,

Elaine

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Subject: Anyone know what this might be?

Does anyone know what this strange mark might represent? It's 10m square, with a cross in the middle. It's in a slightly boggy dip at the head of a small (now) dry valley between Verulamium and Redbourn, a bit west of Watling Street. The pale spread north of it has loads of furnace lining lying about, but this may or may not relate to the strange mark. If it was circular we might think it’s a post mill, but it isn't.

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Isobel

 

 

Dr Isobel Thompson

Historic Environment Record

Historic Environment Unit

Hertfordshire County Council

 

County Hall EMG CHN 108

Pegs Lane

Hertford

SG13 8DN

 

tel: 01992 555245

 

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