Moat 200m S of Old Hall
A moat, a wide ditch surrounding a building, which survives as an earthwork. It dates to the Medieval period and is situated 200m south of Old Hall. The site is visible on aerial photographs.
2 Enclosures, trackway and linear features show on aerial photographs. One of these enclosures appears to be a moat. The other earthworks may relate to deserted Medieval settlement (PRN 6235).
3 Lord Aylesford considers that the Old Hall incorporates material from an earlier, moated, Manor House to the S, where probes have revealed building foundations. 1967: At the above grid references is a typical small, dry, homestead moat, heavily overgrown and without visible building remains. 1976: The now-dry rectangular homestead moat measures, overall, 48m N-S by 34m E-W. The shallow flat-bottomed arms are about 7m in width and up to 0.9m in depth. The site is under rough grazing and lies in wet ground – probably kept filled by surface drainage.
4 Mentioned.
5 Correspondance from Terry Betts, Air Photograph Unit, RHCME with attached photocopy of AP showing Ridge and Furrow, one hollow way and at least one platform.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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