Record Details

NHER Number:8861
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible medieval moat

Summary

An L-shaped pond marked on maps was thought to have been part of a medieval moat. However, it is probably just a water-filled pit.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 0213 0573
Map Sheet:TG00NW
Parish:GARVESTONE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

L shaped pond on 6 inch Ordnance Survey map, perhaps part of a moat.

Ordnance Survey aerial photographs may show very faint outline of long narrow rectangle completing this, but it may only be an old field enclosing the feature.
E. Rose (NAU), 2 November 1979.

Tithe map of 1834 shows this feature as simply a waterfilled pit.
Checked by E. Rose (NAU).

Site visited by A. Rogerson (NAU) in October 1989. Probably not a moat.
E. Rose (NAU), 11 October 1989.

May 2015.
A. Rogerson states that he was unable to get close enough to the site in 1989 to ascertain whether a moat was present.
K. Powell (HES), 26 May 2015

Monument Types

  • POND (Undated)
  • MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. OS AP 73.239.111.
---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. Garveston.

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