Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17762 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of possible medieval moat |
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Summary
This is the site of a possible medieval moat, but the feature, which survives as an L-shaped pond, could also have been a quarry for the clay lump which was used to build the nearby house and barn, both of which were built in the 19th century. A complete medieval or post medieval millstone was found in the gardens.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1790 0022 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10SE |
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| Parish: | BRACON ASH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1981.
East of barn in rectory grounds. Found in gardening.
Complete medieval/Post medieval lava mill stone about 18cm diameter, about 4cm thick.
W. Milligan (NCM) 19 November 1981.
The barn is the northern of the two buildings shown on 1:10,000 OS and not the southern as formerly wrongly marked on NHER map.
The barn is clay lump on brick plinth with an integral south catslide containing a porch and two stables; a good example but not of archaeological interest. A large southeast extension shown on (S1) has gone. The house is also clay lump with fireplaces, cornices etc. of mid 19th century type.
To the southwest is an L-shaped pond now surrounding the New Rectory as well. Its east to west arm is very wide, waterfilled but shallow, but has no evidence of continuation to east. North to south arm shown on (S1) as no more than channel.
Owners believe this is a moat, and say the site was the birthplace of Nicholas Breakspeare, the English pope; but this seems based upon the premise that the rectory has always stood here.
There is a moat just to the south, NHER 9506, and though this is a former green edge site, the pond could simply have been a quarry for the clay lump.
E. Rose (NLA), 25 October 1996.
Monument Types
- MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- MILLSTONE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- MILLSTONE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-1907. Ordnance Survey Map. 25 inch to the mile. Second Edition. 1:2500. |
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