NHER 2976 (Monument record) - Medieval moat

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Summary

This is the site of a double moated enclosure dating to the medieval period, visible as earthworks and cropmark on aerial photographs.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG00SW
Civil Parish CRANWORTH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

L shaped pond shown on OS.
This is now dry, but forms part of a series of earthworks in pasture which resemble a double moat with a hollow way leading northwest into a wood.
'Islands' very bumpy.
Northwest of moat other east to west depressions could represent house platforms, but could also be drainage trenches, and the hollow way could be a channel to the Blackwater; but 'moat' seems to be of larger dimensions than these (though all the earthworks are quite slight) and it is probably genuine.
Visited E. Rose (NAU) 30 November 1978.

25 July 1991. NLA Air Photography.
Cropmark of moat noted.
D. Edwards (NLA)

2 July 1996. NLA air photography (AP1).
Earthworks and cropmarks of double moated enclosure visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 23 July 2001.

1 October 1996. NLA air photography (AP2).
Site visible.
H. Clare (NLA), 23 October 2001.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: TG0004 C-E.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Cranworth.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TG 0004K - L.
  • <S2> Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TG 0004F - J.

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Record last edited

Feb 22 2024 2:17AM

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