MONUMENT NO. 358973

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Earthworks of a Medieval moated manor house and associated features including a field system.

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(TF94182324) Manor House (NR) (Site of) (TF94182321)
Well (NR) (1)

Small circular bank and ditch with one of greater size and of
horse-shoe shape adjoining it, found in April 1855, in clearing
Great Wood, Horningtoft. Foundations of regular building of
rubble-work, and a well in very perfect state lay within the
earthworks which covered an area of about one acre.
Traditionally the site of "a great castle". (2)

Old road 15 ft wide traced for quarter of a mile, past the
earthworks and beside the road for 70 yards going off in an
easterly direction towards N Elmham. Excavated 1852 (?32).
Visited by R R Clarke 14 4 1933. (3,4)

Medieval manor house site. Raised ring 50' diam 7 1/2' high
looks like a small motte; traces of rubble masonry.

Double-ringed enclosure, old road and other features visible. (5)

The present Manor House (TF 94422378) is 19th century, post 1826 and its predecessor was in the village. The large wood on the
east side of the parish including the Medieval manor site
covers almost exactly the area of the demense land. Around the
edge was a large bank and ditch. Carthew's plan shews (the
earthwork of) a circular building within a roughly circular
moat. (6)

A manorial site comprising a sub-circular dry moat, a boundary
bank and ditch, and minor contemporary fields/enclosures. The
moat has been eaten into by quarrying on the north, and part of
the southern side seems to have been eradicated by the plough.
Extensive disturbance within indicates grassed-over building
foundations which seem to have had a normal rectangular layout.
A small depression marks the well, (the fate of the silver
scales noted on the OS 25" as found in it in 1830 is not
apparently recorded).

Resurveyed at 1:2500 (7)

Further information. The author considers the site to be a circular moat (8).

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1959

( 2) General reference

Norf Arch 4 1855 359 (Messrs Harrod & Carthew)

( 3) General reference

VCH (Norf) 1 1901 318 (F Haverfield)

( 4) General reference

Norwich Castle Mus 6" and Notes (R R Clarke 1933)

( 5) General reference

APs 106G/UK/1427/4212-4 1946

( 6a) General reference

Hundred of Launditch III 1879 240-2 and plan (G A Carthew)

( 6) General reference

Launditch W Norf 1971 112ff (P Wade-Martins)

( 7) Field Investigators Comments

F1 BHS 10-JAN-73

(8) General reference

E Anglian Archaeol 10 1980 27-8 (P Wade-Martins)

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