• Abbey A religious house for monks, with an abbot or a...
• Barrow A mound of earth that covers a burial. Sometime...
• Cairn A mound of stones. Most commonly found are clea...
• Causewayed Enclosure A Neolithic enclosure with one or more circ...
• Chantry Chapel A chapel attached to, or inside, a church, endo...
• Cursus A Neolithic monument that consists of two paral...
• Folly The ice house at Painshi...
• Grotto An underground chamber built as a folly. These ...
• Grubenhaus A German word meaning 'sunken-floored building'...
• Henge A ritual enclosure, usually circular, consistin...
• Hillfort A hilltop site, the term is most commonly appli...
• Icehouse A structure, partly underground, for th...
• Jettied House In a timber-framed building, a jetty is a proje...
• Lithic Scatter A distinct surface deposit of stone tools and/o...
• Lithic Working Site A site which has produced evidence of in situ w...
• Lynchet Lynchets look like large steps cut into a field...
• Marching Camp A camp built by an army whilst on the march. Th...
• Midden A rubbish heap, sometimes used over a considera...
• Moot An outdoor meeting or assembly place, tradition...
• Multivallate Hillfort Usually used to describe a hillfort with three ...
• Nissen Hut A prefabricated semi-circular building with a s...
• Oasthouse A building used to store and dry hops, often in...
• Open Hall House A house with a single storey hall (the main liv...
• Orangery A gallery or building in a garden, usually sout...
• Palisade A large wooden fence, made up of posts often wi...
• Park Pale The typical park pale is a wide ditch dug on th...
• Pillbox A small, reinforced defensive building built du...
• Pillow Mound Artificial warrens built to house rabbits, whic...
• Ridge and Furrow Ridge and furrow is a term used to describe the...
• Ring Ditch Circular features usually seen as a cropmark on...
• Signal Station A place used to watch for, or intercept, signal...
• Tank Trap An obstacle built to stop the progress of tanks...
• Tithe Barn A large barn used to store the tithe (a tenth o...
• Updraught Kiln Kilns are in effect large ovens, used for a var...
• Wealden House Type of medieval timber-framed house common in ...

Exploring Surrey's Past holds details of many different types of monument, from barrows to henges - even a Maori meeting house!

This section explains about some of the most common types of monument in the county. If you are looking for more information, try our Glossary to find the term you want.

Have your say