Record Details
| NHER Number: | 9411 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Two medieval moats |
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Summary
The remains of two medieval moats and a connecting ditch survive as earthworks and appear on 19th and 20th century maps. Three sides of the western moat remain and are water filled. An L-shaped pond is all that survives of the eastern moat.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1527 0669 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10NE |
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| Parish: | LITTLE MELTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
'Moat' on (S1), though Ordnance Survey (S2) card says only a landscaping feature.
Marked as a three sided enclosure to west, connected by a ditch to an L-shaped pond on east.
October 1976. Visit.
The west section is full of water; no trace of a western arm, but this could be under the drive to the farm. The east section is totally overgrown and inaccessible, but the connecting ditch is dry.
E. Rose (NAU), 13 October 1976.
1846 tithe award map (S3) (as reproduced by University of East Anglia farm survey of Church Farm (S4)) shows the western section, which lacked its western arm even at that time, but not the eastern compartment. It is difficult to believe that this could have been a landscaping feature so early in such a location.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 September 1993.
December 1998.
West moat waterfilled, weed free, fringed with a few old trees and some smaller specimens. Measures about 50m long about 11m wide (maximum). East moat now appears as dry pond, north arm truncated. Possible leat connects the two moats.
H. Paterson (NLA), 16 December 1998.
Monument Types
- GARDEN FEATURE (Unknown date)
- 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. Melton (Little). |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey, First Edition, 6 Inch. 1879-1886. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6 inch map.. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 10 NE 28. |
| <S3> | Map: 1842. Little Melton tithe apportionment map. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Document: University of East Anglia. Farm Survey. |
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