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Moated site at Cotes de Val, Gilmorton is a medieval defensive and domestic enclosure located in Leicestershire. The site comprises a substantial moat surrounding a raised platform, a characteristic earthwork form that developed extensively during the twelfth to sixteenth centuries across the English Midlands. Such moated sites typically served as the centres of manorial estates or smaller noble residences, combining practical water-based defence with a visible assertion of status and authority. The Gilmorton example represents an important survival of medieval settlement archaeology in the region, preserving evidence of the landscape organisation and domestic arrangements of medieval rural society.
Moated site at Cotes de Val, Gilmorton is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010194. View the official record →
Moated site at Cotes de Val, Gilmorton is a medieval defensive and domestic enclosure located in Leicestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010194.
Moated site at Cotes de Val, Gilmorton 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 1010194.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Motte, moat and fishponds west of All Saints Church (1.7 km), Bowl barrow at Misterton (4.8 km), Moat, fishponds and shifted village earthworks at Ullesthorpe (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site at Cotes de Val, Gilmorton'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 at Cotes de Val, Gilmorton stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.