Meaux duck decoy, 420m south west of Meaux Decoy Farm

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History & significance

Meaux duck decoy is a seventeenth-century decoy pond located in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Duck decoys of this period were sophisticated systems designed to trap wildfowl, consisting of a pond with radiating pipes or channels concealed beneath netting, into which ducks were herded by trained dogs and fowlers using various methods of deception and disturbance. The Meaux example forms part of the wider landscape of commercial wildfowl exploitation that characterised rural England during the early modern period, when decoys represented an efficient means of supplying game to markets and aristocratic tables. The site's survival and scheduling as an ancient monument reflects the archaeological significance of such installations in understanding post-medieval land use and the material culture of hunting practices.

Meaux duck decoy, 420m south west of Meaux Decoy Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015305. View the official record →

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