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Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage

England
List entry 1019179
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1019179
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
2.69 hectares
Grid reference
TL 38463 53025
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage is a medieval defensive earthwork located in Cambridgeshire. The site comprises a moated enclosure, a form of settlement fortification characteristic of the medieval period, whereby a dwelling or farmstead was surrounded by water-filled ditches to provide protection and demarcate property boundaries. Such moated sites were particularly common in medieval England, especially from the twelfth century onwards, and served both practical defensive and social purposes for landholding families. The monument survives as an earthwork feature and remains an important record of medieval rural settlement and land organisation in the region.

Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019179. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage?

Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage is a medieval defensive earthwork located in Cambridgeshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019179.

Who is responsible for protecting Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage?

Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage 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 1019179.

What other scheduled monuments are near Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman site N of Brown Spinney (4.9 km), Moated site known as Hall Yards, 150m north west of Tyrell's Hall (5.3 km), Moated site 170m south west of Tyrell's Hall (5.5 km).

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Overview
An interactive map of the location with every monument and battle plotted, and a plain-language history built only from what the record holds.
Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
Laser-scanned terrain that reveals earthworks hidden under fields and woodland, with likely features flagged.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.
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Target Zones
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Roman site N of Brown Spinney
4.9 km
Moated site known as Hall Yards, 150m north west of Tyrell's Hall
5.3 km
Moated site 170m south west of Tyrell's Hall
5.5 km
Settlement site SE of West Hill
6.7 km
Moated site 200m south east of St Mary's Church
7.4 km
The earthworks and buried remains of a ringwork known as the Round Moat
8.2 km
Moated site, known as `Crows Parlour'.
8.4 km
Bowl barrow 205m SSE of Lodge Cottage
9.4 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage

Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Moated complex 260m north west of Fryers Cottage

CambridgeRoman town · ~5.4 milesGreat ChesterfordRoman town · ~9.6 milesGodmanchesterRoman town · ~13.8 miles
Domesday entry for Harlton, Cambridgeshire →
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