ENN101895 - Barton Seagrave Moats, 2002 (Observation)

{1} Monitoring of water main groundworks within and adjacent to the SAM. In total four small test pits were machine excavated. One of the test pits truncated the north-east corner of the southernmost moat, and revealed a metalled layer which comprised part of the external bank to the moat. Immediately to the south of this, a second test pit cut the eastern causeway of the same enclosure. This revealed a 'backfill' deposit containing limestone masonry fragments, which overlaid the fill of the moat, a sterile sandy silt overlying a black organic silt that contained animal bone, wood fragments and a sherd of 14th century pottery. No archaeological remains were encountered in the two remaining pits.