Monument record CRP 001 - Cropmark of a medieval moated enclosure

Circular moat levelled by bulldozer, November 1959, R Jardine (S1). Now shows as an oval soil mark 90m E-W by 70m NW-SE, with a ditch that averages 8m in width. Situated on the alluvial floodplain of the River Gipping. Scatter of red brick and tile fragments noted 1979 (S2). Aerial photographs show a smaller and slighter curving ditch forming an attached enclosure on the N side (S3).
Fieldwalking 1983-4 produced EMed pottery, C13-C14 pottery and a small amount of part-green-glazed pottery, together with a stone mortar and fragments of a bronze pot (S4). Recorded as `Moat Piece', arable, 1 acre 8 perches, owned by Sir William Beauchamp Proctor 1839 (S5).
Shown on OS 1: 10560 map (S3).
Compare FKM 005 & FNN 005.

Earthwork of a medieval moated site, visible on aerial photographs from 1946 (S9) as an extant substantial oval enclosure, with wide ditches up to 8m across. The enclosure is 90m NW-SE and 78m SW-NE. The enclosure was levelled in 1959 (S1) and is clearly visible as a cropmark on subsequent photography. There are numerous cropmarks of ditches and field boundaries associated with the enclosure. Helen Saunders (Essex County Council) December 2013. (S10, S11)

Earthworks visible on Lidar. See associated files.