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Moated site 90m north east of Ashby Villas is a medieval defensive earthwork located in Buckinghamshire. The site consists of a substantial moat enclosing a residential platform, a settlement pattern characteristic of the medieval period in England, particularly from the twelfth century onwards. Such moated homesteads typically served manorial or aristocratic families and were designed to provide both practical water management and a degree of physical protection around domestic structures. The monument represents an important example of medieval settlement archaeology and landscape organisation in the English Midlands.
Moated site 90m north east of Ashby Villas is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016476. View the official record →
Moated site 90m north east of Ashby Villas is a medieval defensive earthwork located in Buckinghamshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016476.
Moated site 90m north east of Ashby Villas 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 1016476.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 990m long section between Crawley's Lane and Rossway Lane (8.9 km), Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 1350m long section between Kiln Road and Chesham Road (9.2 km), Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 230m long section in Hamberlins Wood (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site 90m north east of Ashby Villas'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 90m north east of Ashby Villas stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.