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Hertfordshire HER
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| HHER Number: | 1780 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | POSSIBLE MOATED SITE, WELL WOOD, WATTON-AT-STONE |
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Summary - not yet available
Monument Types
- MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
Full description
A sub-circular enclosure with a well-defined bank and ditch on the E, the ditch being the more outstanding feature. An entrance is visible on the SE side<1>. Banks 2-2.5m high. Remains of an excavation trench across NE corner visible <2>.
'A scatter of early medieval pottery appears on the surface, and a 12C Caen-stone mortar was found' within the enclosure <3>. For the mortar, see <4>.
Sources and further reading
| --- | Index: OS Records. |
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: VCH Herts vol.2 (1908). |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Ancient Monuments Field Report. |
| <3> | Report: Tony Rook. 2004. Archaeological assessment, evaluation and watching brief: All Saints' churchyard, Datchworth. archaeological assessment. RNO 1583 |
| <4> | Article in serial: Anon. 1970. Chapel Wood, Well Wood; Herts Archaeol Review 1 (spring 1970), 20. |
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