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The moated site at Old Moat Farm is a medieval defensive and residential earthwork located in Buckinghamshire. The monument consists of a substantial water-filled or formerly water-filled moat surrounding what would have been a domestic or manorial enclosure, a settlement pattern characteristic of the medieval period from approximately the 12th to 16th centuries. Such moated sites typically indicate the presence of a house of some social standing, as the expense of constructing and maintaining a moat placed them beyond the reach of ordinary peasant households. The earthworks at Old Moat Farm preserve important archaeological evidence of medieval settlement and land use in the region.
Moated site at Old Moat Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018761. View the official record →
The moated site at Old Moat Farm is a medieval defensive and residential earthwork located in Buckinghamshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018761.
Moated site at Old Moat 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 1018761.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tickford Bridge (4.5 km), A moated site, three fishponds, two trackways and field systems at Moat Farm (4.8 km), Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks, west of All Saints Church, Milton Keynes Village. (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site at Old Moat 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 Old Moat Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.