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Moat Farm moated site and associated pond is a medieval residential moat located in Suffolk, England. The monument comprises a moated enclosure typical of the medieval period, when such earthwork defences served to demarcate and protect the dwellings of the gentry and minor nobility. The site retains evidence of its former water-filled ditch system, with associated water management features including a pond that would have supplied and maintained the moat. Such moated sites were particularly common in medieval East Anglia and represent an important category of domestic archaeology from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries.
Moat Farm moated site and associated pond is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011337. View the official record →
Moat Farm moated site and associated pond is a medieval residential moat located in Suffolk, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011337.
Moat Farm moated site and associated pond 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 1011337.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Lays fishponds, 265m south east of Dennington Hall (1.8 km), Moated site at Fenton's Farm (2.1 km), Moated site with internal pond at Glebe Farm (3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moat Farm moated site and associated pond'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.
Moat Farm moated site and associated pond stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.