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Cellar Heads is a moated site located in Risby Park, North Yorkshire, comprising the earthwork remains of a residential enclosure dating to the medieval period. The monument consists of a substantial moat defining a roughly rectangular enclosure, representative of the domestic settlements established by landholding families during the high medieval period. Ridge and furrow earthworks survive in association with the moated site, indicating the agricultural land use that sustained the settlement and providing evidence of the integrated character of medieval manorial exploitation. The site remains a significant archaeological record of medieval settlement patterns and land use in the Yorkshire landscape, preserved as upstanding earthwork features that continue to inform understanding of rural medieval settlement organisation.
'Cellar Heads' moated site and related ridge and furrow earthworks at Risby Park, 700m north west of Risby Park Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015312. View the official record →
Cellar Heads is a moated site located in Risby Park, North Yorkshire, comprising the earthwork remains of a residential enclosure dating to the medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015312.
'Cellar Heads' moated site and related ridge and furrow earthworks at Risby Park, 700m north west of Risby Park Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1015312.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Risby Jacobean gardens, hall and medieval settlement remains (0.6 km), Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 350m west of Butt Farm (1.8 km), Beverley sanctuary limit stone, Walkington cross (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of 'Cellar Heads' moated site and related ridge and furrow earthworks at Risby Park, 700m north west of Risby Park Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
'Cellar Heads' moated site and related ridge and furrow earthworks at Risby Park, 700m north west of Risby Park Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.