MONUMENT NO. 227057

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Alleged site of a medieval fortified manor house, surviving as earthworks.

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(SU 39642333). Md. moated manor site. (1)

A roughly square piece of land, slightly higher than the surrounding ground, the circumference of which is bounded by the vestiges of a sunken way, most apparent on the northern arc. The south side has been erased by the main road; the west by a garden and outbuildings, though a slight dip is visible; the east by a farm track. The northern arm is partly water filled, the outer slope is relatively gentle and grass-covered, whereas the inner is steep and surmounted by a quickset hedge.

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The centre is occupied by a modern house and market garden. (2)

The area is sited on a hilltop: the topographical nature of the land is such, that an outer bank of most massive proportions would have been necessary on the W & NW to retain the waters of
a moat. No traces of such a bank exist. The extent A-B closely
resembles the hollow way and it continues along the eastern side in the form of a sunken lane. The 'slight dip' on the west is caused by the juxtaposition of a modern drive to the adjoining house, constructed causeway fashion because of the immediate and rapid falling away of the land generally. Because of its topographical relationship to the adjacent hollow way the two can have no connection, nor is one likely to be the variant of the other. No literary evidence was encountered, but accepting this to be the role of a mediaeval house, it could not have been moated but merely fortified by a ditch. (3)

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( 1) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JM 25-AUG-53

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F2 VEL 08-JAN-54

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