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Moated site 230m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church is a medieval defensive earthwork located in Somerset, England. The site comprises a water-filled or water-retaining moat that would have enclosed a residential enclosure, a characteristic form of settlement fortification employed by minor gentry and substantial landowners during the medieval period. Such moated sites were particularly common in the 12th to 16th centuries, though construction and occupation often extended across multiple centuries. The earthwork survives as a substantial archaeological monument, preserving evidence of domestic settlement patterns and defensive strategies characteristic of the English countryside during the medieval era.
Moated site 230m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007914. View the official record →
Moated site 230m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church is a medieval defensive earthwork located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007914.
Moated site 230m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church 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 1007914.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Churchyard cross in St John The Evangelist's churchyard (5.8 km), Churchyard cross in St Bridget's churchyard, Chelvey (6 km), Slight univallate hillfort at Wain's Hill (6.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site 230m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church'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.
Moated site 230m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.