The Gatehouse website record for Rennesley Garden Wood, Hertfordshire

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Rennesley Gardenwood; Wadesmill; Standon

In the civil parish of Thundridge. In the historic county of Hertfordshire (Modern Authority of Hertfordshire, 1974 county of Hertfordshire).

Rather doubtful motte.
Circular earthen mound 12.5m diameter and 1.3m high surrounded on N, S and E sides by a ditch. This is square in plan, c9m wide and up to 1.8m deep, and now dry. Age and function unclear; it has been described as a moat or a barrow and on the OS 6" map as site of castle. In good condition. The SM description calls this 'the most interesting of the moated mounds in Herts… a mound c11m square and 1.87m in height, standing on a square platform… [and] surrounded on three sides by a moat'. The moat is dry; the site is covered in woodland. (Herts HER)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL35491801

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 367491
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 46 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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