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Medieval moated site and associated earthworks, Pound Piece, Manxey is a scheduled ancient monument comprising a moated enclosure and accompanying earthwork features located in Sussex. The moat itself forms a substantial water-filled or water-retentive ditch system surrounding a residential platform, a layout typical of medieval manorial settlements and defensive homesteads dating from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. The site's associated earthworks include banks and ditches that define the extent of the medieval occupation and land use patterns. Such moated sites are characteristic of medieval rural settlement in southern England, serving as the focal points of agricultural estates and providing both practical drainage and symbolic demarcation of authority and property.
Medieval moated site and associated earthworks, Pound Piece, Manxey is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012793. View the official record →
Medieval moated site and associated earthworks, Pound Piece, Manxey is a scheduled ancient monument comprising a moated enclosure and accompanying earthwork features located in Sussex.
Medieval moated site and associated earthworks, Pound Piece, Manxey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1012793.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pevensey Castle: a Saxon Shore fort, Norman defences, a medieval enclosure castle, and later associated remains (2.4 km), Martello tower no 64 at the Crumbles, 1.3km north east of Langney Point (4.9 km), Shinewater Bronze Age settlement (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Medieval moated site and associated earthworks, Pound Piece, Manxey's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Medieval moated site and associated earthworks, Pound Piece, Manxey stands on Wealden Group, bedrock that formed in the Barremian. The rock here is sandstone and siltstone, interbedded.