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| Can anyone from the New Barnet/Cockfosters area of London help me with an odd feature near the playing fields (TQ 276 966)? http://www.streetmap.co.uk/new[...]wmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf It's some sort of moat or ditch feature at the east end of the playing fields - on the other side of the 'moat' is a modern housing development, but this feature appears on maps of the area as early as 1873 - with no houses immediately nearby. I realise this may have no prehistoric provenance (perhaps a medieval moat?), but you never know, since there is an Iron Age enclosure/fort ('Hadley Woods Camp') about a mile to the west, where the railway line bisects the woods. The other oddity I noticed on these old maps was a mound feature to the west of the ditch (now where Linthorpe Rd meets Northfield Rd); the ditch and the 'mound' are connected by a path. I'd be grateful for any info that anyone has, even if it disproves a prehistoric date... Thanks! Reply | with quote | Posted by Sifaka 1st January 2008ce 20:35 |
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