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Duck decoy, 820m SSW of Little Huckham Farm, is a seventeenth-century wildfowl trap situated on Walton Moor in Somerset. It forms part of a group of three decoys on the moor, representing the westernmost example of these structures used for the systematic capture of wild ducks and other waterfowl. The decoy operates on principles developed during the Dutch golden age, employing a series of curved pipes or arms radiating from a central pond to funnel birds into traps where they could be captured alive or killed. Its survival as an archaeological monument preserves evidence of a once-widespread form of waterfowl management that was particularly prevalent in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Duck decoy, 820m SSW of Little Huckham Farm: the western of three decoys on Walton Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014448. View the official record →
Duck decoy, 820m SSW of Little Huckham Farm, is a seventeenth-century wildfowl trap situated on Walton Moor in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014448.
Duck decoy, 820m SSW of Little Huckham Farm: the western of three decoys on Walton Moor 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 1014448.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman villa N of Stowey Hill (4.2 km), Compton Dundon hillfort with Dundon Beacon, east of Dundon (4.3 km), Low Ham Roman villa (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Duck decoy, 820m SSW of Little Huckham Farm: the western of three decoys on Walton Moor'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.
Duck decoy, 820m SSW of Little Huckham Farm: the western of three decoys on Walton Moor stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.