Site Event/Activity record ESF29427 - Monitoring and Evaluation - Haughley Castle, Haughley

2010-2012: SAM consent was given to excavate excess silts (only removing modern build up) from the moat of Haughley Castle and remove trees and vegetation from the motte and banks as part of a scheme to bring the monument back into positive management. The work was conditional on a programme of archaeological monitoring and investigation being implemented. The archaeological work was stage and included assessment and evaluation fo the moat deposits before the project started. Evaluation trenches were excavated across the moat fill to record the profile of the moat ditch and infilling layers. The excavation of the moat silts for the project were subject to archaeological monitoring and were done to a maximum depth of 1.5m from the centre of the moat and c.1.00m from elsehwere. Exacavated silts were stockpiled in a settling lagoon and spread on adjacent fields once they had dried out and the area was subject to field walking.The surface of the motte was also subject to a field walking survey and bonded castle fabric and spreads of building flint were recorded together with p-med interventions.