Monument record PSM 025 - Priory Farm

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Summary

Aerial photograph showing circular earthwork within Priory Farm (S1).

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 9399 5069 (25m by 26m)
Map sheet TL95SW
Civil Parish PRESTON ST MARY, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Aerial photograph showing circular earthwork within Priory Farm (S1). Site of windmill. Earthworks are a shallow depression 6m in diameter. Something hard 6ins down - probably the foundations of the brick roundhouse of a post mill. 1839 tithe map shows mill standing, 1885 OS map shows mill disused. Not shown on 1904 map. Thorpe mentions that a shed is shown between the earthworks and corner of the road to the S and a slightly hollow trackway leads past it up to the mill. Also that a gate is still embedded in the hedge at this point (S2). According to Flint, first mapped in 1824 and gone by 1902 (S3).

Sources/Archives (7)

  • <S1> (No record type): OS, AP 69 003 022, 1969.
  • <M1> (No record type): AP: (S1).
  • <S2> (No record type): Thorpe A, A Landscape History of Priory Farm, Preston St Mary, 1993, 35-37, ill.
  • <M2> Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish file. Parish file: (S2).
  • <M3> (No record type): Windmills file: (S3)(S4).
  • <S3> (No record type): Flint B, Suffolk Windmills, 1979, 139.
  • <S4> (No record type): Dolman P C J, letter to SAU, 1990.

Finds (0)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 19 1996 12:00AM

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