Monument record HTT 018 - Medieval moat enclosure and Post Medieval building footing. Spring Farm, Hessett (HTT 018)

April 2007: Monitoring for developments within a moated enclosure revealed that in the area of the access the moat had been maintained with no evidence of the long-term accumulation of deposits. As there was no evidence of any earlier cuts it is reasonable to assume that the moat follows an original course. The evidence of the building footing is consistent with the plan of 1880 suggesting a standing building with flint walls. The size of the flints and the pale mortar mix support the view that this was a post-medieval construction. The cobbling that was found resting on natural clay against the internal face may be an original surface; this would be consistent with a barn or stable block rather than a dwelling. The roadside ditch was undated. It obviously had some antiquity because it appeared to have infilled naturally through silting (S1).