b'AFigure 2This is a detail from an RAF photograph which was taken in 1951 and it shows the eastern edge of the same territory represented in Figure 1. Wold Farm is visible in the bottom right corner.The visible end-points of the boundary we are interested in are marked as A and B. Bthe common element I take this to refer to the samewhich the oak palisade would have been plot (with the passage of time making the naming lessset, and an inner ditch following the line of specific). This seems more likely when we considerthe bank.that one meaning of Foster is one who looks afterCan we find signs of a curvilinear boundary (sign the lords forests or woods. 1) with a bank (sign 2) and ditch (sign 3) anywhere So, let us picture it: the Palace site wasaround our Deer Park? If we went out today either on surrounded on at least two sides by the Deer Park.foot or in the air we might not have much luck. But One of those sides was formed by the moat. On thethere is at least one old aerial photograph that does other side, the south side, there was a bank, probablyshow two out of the three signssee Figure 28 . with a wooden pale or fence on it, to keep the deerStill visible in 1951 is a curvilinear boundary out. Access was needed from the Palace to the Deermarked by a ditch. For some of its length it appears to Park. This was provided by a crossing over the beckfollow the line of the very edge of the flatter ground (on and a gate in the boundary bank (possibly the verythe right) where the slope falls off into the Park (on the same gate we left hanging a few paragraphs back!).left). This would have been a natural line to follow for a Close to this gate there was a Lodge for the personDeer Park as the upward slope would make it harder who looked after the deer and the woodland in whichfor deer to jump the boundary.they roamed. In SummaryThe View from the Air We have 4 distinct fragments of evidence:What must we look for on the ground as evidence The use of the term park that has passed for a Deer Park? There are three possibilities thatdown through the centuries from at least Susan Neave identifies: 1298 to the present day.The boundary of a former park sometimes One aerial photograph that shows survives in the form of a curvilinear hedgerow marking a block of earlycharacteristic signs of the Deer Park enclosure, surrounded by fields of a moreboundary. References to a lodge that would have been regular shape which had been laid out at parliamentary enclosure in the 18th or earlyused by the keeper of the Deer Park. The Archbishops of York were known to be 19th century.Occasionally the boundary of a medievalkeen on deer hunting and had parks at their park is still marked by an earthen bank, onother residences.I am convinced. Are you?8English Heritage (NMR) RAF Photography. Ref: RAF/540/572 Frame 3084 (Dated 30/7/51). Reproduced with permission.104 BULLETIN 7'