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The moated site immediately west of Furnace Farm is a medieval domestic enclosure located in Kent, England. The monument consists of a water-filled or formerly water-filled moat forming a roughly rectangular or irregular perimeter, a characteristic defensive and status-denoting feature of high-medieval settlement sites across southern England. Dating to the medieval period, such moated homesteads typically served as the residences of minor gentry or substantial farming families and represent a significant form of settlement organisation in the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. The survival of the moat at this location provides archaeological evidence for medieval land use and the pattern of dispersed settlement that characterised the Kentish countryside during the Middle Ages.
Moated site immediately west of Furnace Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020383. View the official record →
The moated site immediately west of Furnace Farm is a medieval domestic enclosure located in Kent, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020383.
Moated site immediately west of Furnace 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 1020383.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The site of Bedgebury Furnace, 100m south east of Furnace Farm (0.1 km), A quadrangular castle and 16th/17th century manor house known as Old Scotney Castle, set in a 19th century landscaped garden (5 km), Medieval moated site at Share Farm (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site immediately west of Furnace 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 immediately west of Furnace Farm stands on Wealden Group, bedrock that formed in the Barremian. The rock here is sandstone and siltstone, interbedded.