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Moated site at Pierce Williams is a medieval defensive enclosure located in Essex, England. The site consists of a substantial moat defining a residential platform, a form of fortified homestead that became widespread amongst the English gentry and substantial landowners during the high medieval period, particularly from the twelfth century onwards. Such moated sites typically enclosed timber or stone-built dwellings and associated domestic buildings within their water-filled defences, serving both practical and status-defining functions. The Pierce Williams example represents the archaeological remains of this important class of medieval settlement and defensive architecture characteristic of rural Essex during the medieval centuries.
Moated site at Pierce Williams is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011653. View the official record →
Moated site at Pierce Williams is a medieval defensive enclosure located in Essex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011653.
Moated site at Pierce Williams 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 1011653.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hatfield Broad Oak Priory (1.4 km), Colville Hall Tudor and medieval remains, White Roding (2 km), Lea Hall moated site (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site at Pierce Williams'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 Pierce Williams stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.