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A group of eight small circular features, interpreted as plough-levelled hay stack stances, are visible as cropmarks on 1940s aerial photographs.
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A group of eight small circular features are visible as cropmarks on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The features measure between 6-10m in diameter. They are interpreted as hay stack stances, mounds for the drying and storage of hay in the damp environment of a riverside meadow. 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.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [2].
<2> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.
| MWX43289 | Parent of: Hay stack stance, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43290 | Parent of: Hay stack stance, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43296 | Parent of: Hay stack stance, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43298 | Parent of: Hay stack stances and a bank, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43281 | Parent of: Hay stack stances and possible flood bank, south of River Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43302 | Parent of: Hay stack stances and ridge and furrow, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43237 | Parent of: Hay stack stances south of the River Stour (Monument) |
| MWX43238 | Parent of: Hay stack stances south of the River Stour (Monument) |
| MWX43287 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, east of Corner Drove, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43288 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, east of Corner Drove, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43278 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43294 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43295 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43297 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43299 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
| MWX43300 | Parent of: Hay stack stances, south of the Stour, 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) |
| MWX43351 | Part of: Hay stack stances, Ash Levels (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) |
| MWX43324 | Part of: Haystack stances, Fleming Valley, Ash Levels (Monument) |
| MWX43326 | Part of: Possible haystack stance, Fleming Valley, Ash Levels (Monument) |
