Record Details

NHER Number:9991
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of possible medieval moated enclosure

Summary

This may have been the site of a possible medieval moated enclosure. However by 1999 a number of new corrugated roofed farm buildings had been erected on the site, and no visible earthworks remained above ground.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 1601 9986
Map Sheet:TM19NE
Parish:WRENINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Possible moat at Corporation Farm.
E. Rose (NAU).

Farmhouse now divorced from other buildings, some of these barns converted into dwellings. New corrugated roofed farm buildings erected on site of possible moat. Nothing now remains above ground.
H. Paterson (NLA), 2 July 1999.

Monument Types

  • 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. Wreningham.

Related records - none

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