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Moated site at Low Butterby Farm is a medieval defensive and domestic enclosure located in County Durham. The site comprises a substantial moat forming an irregular quadrilateral or polygonal plan, which enclosed a residential farmstead and represented a status symbol and practical defence measure typical of the period. Dating to the medieval period, moated sites of this type were particularly common in northern England during the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. The monument survives as an earthwork feature, with the moat defining the boundary of the former domestic enclosure and providing evidence of medieval settlement patterns and land use in this region.
Moated site at Low Butterby Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008663. View the official record →
Moated site at Low Butterby Farm is a medieval defensive and domestic enclosure located in County Durham. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008663.
Moated site at Low Butterby Farm 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 1008663.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Croxdale medieval chapel and churchyard cross base (1.5 km), Sunderland Bridge, near Croxdale (1.9 km), Maiden Castle promontory fort (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site at Low Butterby Farm'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 Low Butterby Farm stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.