Scheduled Ancient Monument: MOATED SITE AT REDHOUSE FARM (21320)

The monument includes a moated site, located on a spur 600m to the north of Potsford Brook, close to the northern boundary of Charsfield parish and approximately 1km north-west of the village. The moated site survives as a rectilinear platform, partly enclosed by a water-filled ditch which is approximately 2m deep and 6m to 9m in width. The platform comprises a quadrangular area with maximum dimensions of approximately 67m east-west by 38m north-south, with a rectangular projection, measuring 20m east-west by 18m north-south internally, on the western end of the south side. The moat ditch surrounds the north-eastern corner and the east and south sides of the platform, with an offset delimiting the east, south and west sides of the projecting area to the south. On the south side of the projecting area it is crossed by a causeway. The western arm of the moat has been largely filled in, except at its southern end, and the west side of the platform is defined in part by a narrower drain, following the same line. The infilled moat ditch survives as a buried feature below and to the east of the drain, where it is marked by a slight hollow in the ground surface, and to the north, where its outer edge is visible as a slight scarp, approximately 0.3m in height. A hollow, approximately 8m wide and 0.3m deep in the adjoining ground surface to the east, marks what appears to be a short, infilled internal ditch projecting from the centre of the western arm of the moat into the interior. The northern arm of the moat survives mostly as a buried feature, although it is visible on the east side of the monument, where it borders the platform for approximately 18m, and continues eastwards from the north-eastern corner for a distance of approximately 35m. This eastern extension of the ditch is dry and measures 5m in width and 1m in depth.