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A group of three shallow circular earthworks, interpreted as hay stack stances, are visible on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs. They appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks.
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A group of three shallow circular earthworks are visible on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The mounds all measure c. 6m in diameter and lie in a WSW-ENE aligned line separated by 30m to 40m intervals. The features are interpreted as hay stack stances, mounds for the drying and storage of hay in the damp environment of a riverside meadow. They appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks [2]. Similar features have been recorded across the floor of the Stour Valley between Upstreet and the coast and this part of the valley has a particularly dense concentration (see Related Monuments). They appear to represent an integral part of the medieval or post-medieval farming landscape in this area.
It is possible that these may be the same features already recorded as TR 26 SE 29 (MKE15884), lying 200m to the SE, however there is not enough detail in their Source Records to be absolutely certain (see Related Monuments).
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].
<3> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.
| MWX43281 | Parent of: Hay stack stances and possible flood bank, south of River Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43288 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, east of Corner Drove, Ash (Monument) |
| TR 26 SE 29 | Parent of: Undated mounds, ash (Monument) |
| MWX43348 | Part of: Hay stack stance, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43349 | Part of: Hay stack stance, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43350 | Part of: Hay stack stance, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43352 | Part of: Hay stack stance, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43289 | Part of: Hay stack stance, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43290 | Part of: Hay stack stance, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43296 | Part of: Hay stack stance, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43298 | Part of: Hay stack stances and a bank, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43302 | Part of: Hay stack stances and ridge and furrow, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43237 | Part of: Hay stack stances south of the River Stour (Monument) |
| MWX43238 | Part of: Hay stack stances south of the River Stour (Monument) |
| MWX43351 | Part of: Hay stack stances, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43287 | Part of: Hay stack stances, east of Corner Drove, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43294 | Part of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43295 | Part of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43297 | Part of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43299 | Part of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43300 | Part of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43325 | Part of: Haystack stance, Fleming Valley, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43334 | Part of: Haystack stance, Minster Marshes (Monument) |
| MWX43335 | Part of: Haystack stance, Minster Marshes (Monument) |
| MWX43333 | Part of: Haystack stances and a ditch, south of the Stour (Monument) |
| MWX43323 | Part of: Haystack stances, Fleming Valley, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43324 | Part of: Haystack stances, Fleming Valley, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43326 | Part of: Possible haystack stance, Fleming Valley, Ash Levels (Monument) |
