Site Event/Activity record ESF25727 - Auger Survey - Haughley Moat

An auger survey and radiocarbon dating program was undertaken in advance of remedial restorations work on a motte and bailey castle site. The proposed works involved the removal of vegetation and the deepening of the moat profile which may disturb in situ medieval deposits. The auger survey characterised the general sequence of deposition to be represented by a poorly humified leaf litter sealed by material that had eroded out of the motte and the moat ditch sides. Radiocarbon dating confirmed that even at a depth of 2.5m the material that infills the moat is fairly recent (S1).