Record Details
NHER Number: | 10073 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Possible medieval moat and deer park |
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Summary
A medieval moat was noted here by the Ordnance Survey. This moat may have been recut in the 19th century to form a sheep wash or to fill water carts. A medieval deer park is also reported.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TM 1698 9018 |
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Map Sheet: | TM19SE |
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Parish: | GREAT MOULTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
L-shaped pond, possible moat fragment, noted on Ordnance Survey.
3 October 1979. Visit.
Not a moat? Apparently some sort of pit - lined on east and south by overgrown spoil heaps. Yet a wide dry ditch or hollow way continues its 'foot' into the next field. But [1] states that this is marked as a complete moat on (S1). Was it partly redug out in the 19th century to fill water carts or as sheep wash, as happened elsewhere, thus explaining spoilheaps? [1] also believes the roughly oval arrangement of field boundaries with Carr Lane, Frith Way, Haugh Way is a 15th century park, but he produces no evidence for this and it seems very small.
Information from [1] via W. Milligan (NCM).
E. Rose (NAU), 5 October 1987.
Monument Types
- PIT (Unknown date)
- DEER PARK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Moulton (Great). |
<S1> | Map: 1824. Great Moulton Enclosure Map. |
Related records - none
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