MONUMENT NO. 109737

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Site of manor house, south west of the church. The house was 'utterly decayed' in 1578 and no trace was visible above ground by the middle of the 19th century. The earthwork remains of a number of parallel banks and a ditch possibly associated with the site of the manor house were mapped from aerial photographs.

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(Area SO 550125) The site (possibly moated) of the manor-house of Staunton lies in a field called "the Castle Meadow" 100 yards SW of Staunton church. The field is rectangular in shape and is bounded on the SW side by a deep ditch. By the time of Elizabeth the buildings were in ruins and by the mid-19th century nothing was visible above ground. Excavations in 1882 revealed animal bones, sherds of coarse pottery, some small pieces of "brass trellis" and a piece of worked stone possibly part of a column. (1-2)

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The site occurs on a gentle S-facing slope. There are no traces of any building within Castle Meadow and the ditch on the SW side is a hollow-way carrying a farm track. Local enquiries elicited no further information. (3)

This site was surveyed from aerial photographs at 1:10,000 scale as part of the English Heritage: Gloucestershire NMP project. No obvious remains of the manor house described by the previous authorities could be detected, but immediately to the south of the site of the house the faint earthwork remains of up to four parallel banks or slight terraces were detected. These could be found continuing in the next field to the west where a ditch was also recorded running parallel to the banks. This ditch appeared to lead from the site of Brindsey's Well. It is possible that these features are associated with the site or perhaps represent the remains of Medieval or Post Medieval garden features. (4)

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( 1) Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

T Bristol & Glos AS 6 1881-2 359 6 Page(s)359

( 2) Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

T Bristol & Glos AS 7 1882-3 227 (J Maclean) 7 Page(s)227

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 FKB 10-OCT-70.

(4) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

RAF CPE/UK/1813 3010-11 30-DEC-1946

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