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Moated site 60m north of Benville Manor is a medieval earthwork monument located in Dorset, England. The site comprises a substantial water-filled or water-retaining moat that would have enclosed a residential or defensive structure, characteristic of medieval manorial settlements dating from the 12th to 16th centuries. Such moated sites served both practical and symbolic functions, providing protection and status to their occupants whilst also facilitating water management for domestic and agricultural purposes. The survival of the moat as an identifiable earthwork demonstrates the persistence of medieval landscape features and contributes to understanding patterns of settlement and land use in medieval Dorset.
Moated site 60m north of Benville Manor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016896. View the official record →
Moated site 60m north of Benville Manor is a medieval earthwork monument located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016896.
Moated site 60m north of Benville Manor 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 1016896.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Barrow beside Shotcombe Lane (9.1 km), Large multivallate hillfort containing two bowl barrows 855m north east of North Eggardon Farm (9.2 km), Part of a Later Prehistoric or Romano-British field system 250m north of Eggardon Hill Farm (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site 60m north of Benville Manor'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 60m north of Benville Manor stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.