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Moated site at Letheringham Lodge is a medieval earthwork monument located in Suffolk, England. The site consists of a substantial moat defining an enclosed residential platform, a characteristic defensive and status-defining feature of high-medieval settlement in East Anglia, typically dating from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. The moat survives as an observable landscape feature, preserving evidence of the former domestic and possibly manorial occupation that would have stood within its protection. Such moated sites represent an important class of medieval settlement archaeology, indicating the presence of a person of some social standing, likely a minor landowner or tenant farmer of sufficient means to undertake the substantial earthwork investment that moat construction required.
Moated site at Letheringham Lodge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007674. View the official record →
Moated site at Letheringham Lodge is a medieval earthwork monument located in Suffolk, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007674.
Moated site at Letheringham Lodge 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 1007674.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site at Letheringham Hall (1.1 km), Godwin's Place moated site and ponds (2 km), Moated site at Hoo Green, 290m north west of Godwin's Place (2.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site at Letheringham Lodge'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 Letheringham Lodge stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.