Monument record 4287/5/7 - Possible medieval moat (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Small scale excavation

{2} The surviving remains, together with those planned by the OS before destruction and those visible on air photographs, indicate at least two separate phases. On the west is a large L-shaped ditch up to 2.5m deep with both an internal and an external bank up to 1.25m high, and a causeway on the south. Beyond the causeway, the ditch and part of the bank continue, and beyond again is another oval depression to the south east. These earthworks are now planted with conifers and difficult of access but they appear to be the north west half of a moated site within which the medieval manor house presumably once stood.

{3} Field name: Hall Ponds

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.124 site 16 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP77NE2 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

Record last edited

Dec 5 2013 3:46PM