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Moated site and two fishponds at Moathouse Cottage is a medieval defensive and productive landholding situated in Berkshire. The site comprises a moated enclosure typical of the High to Late Medieval period, likely dating from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, together with two associated fishponds which served both nutritional and manorial purposes. The moat and ponds represent the physical infrastructure of a manorial holding, with the water features providing both practical resources and visible markers of status and territorial control. Such sites are characteristic of the medieval agricultural landscape in southern England, where moats afforded modest defensive advantage and water management while fishponds supplied a valuable protein resource to the resident lord's household.
Moated site and two fishponds, Moathouse Cottage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013170. View the official record →
Moated site and two fishponds at Moathouse Cottage is a medieval defensive and productive landholding situated in Berkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013170.
Moated site and two fishponds, Moathouse 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 1013170.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow in Stephen's Firs: an outlier to a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs (3.2 km), Grim's Bank: section extending 880yds (795m) in Old Warren (4.3 km), Hillfort south west of Pond Farm, near Silchester (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site and two fishponds, Moathouse Cottage'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 and two fishponds, Moathouse Cottage stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.