Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8245 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval moat at Moat Farm |
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Summary
Three remaining sides of a medieval moat, now mostly tree covered. The eastern part of the moat is now covered with 19th century farm buildings.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3845 2834 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32NE |
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| Parish: | LESSINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Moat (marked on Ordnance Survey map) at Moat Farm, Lessingham.
January 1981. Visit.
North, west and south sides remain waterfilled, wide. Trees along them but interior is a garden. Narrow arm shown on Ordnance Survey as forming east side of island is probably a later drainage ditch, now almost gone; the south arm protrudes further east and the original east arm is probably buried under the 19th century farm buildings. The north arm protrudes west beyond the west arm its end has recently been filled in, and there are no traces in a pasture field of any further ditches here.
Farm house is 18th and 19th century (empty at time of visit).
Small wooden bridge across west arm.
E. Rose (NAU), 15 January 1981.
April 2004. Norfolk NMP
Extant moat of probable medieval date mapped from aerial photographs (S1). Three sides of the moat are visible, but it is not clearly defined on aerial photographs of any date due to adjacent trees.
(S1)
J. Albone (NMP), 6 April 2004
Monument Types
- MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- DRAINAGE DITCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 32 NE 9. |
| --- | 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. Lessingham. |
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1943. RAF AC/161 5135-6 04-JAN-1943 (NMR). |
Related records - none
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